Re: question about AMD IOMMU IO_PAGE_FAULT event and PRI

[Joerg Roedel <joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Hann,

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 11:45:55AM +0800, Hann Huang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I did some experiment which needs two-stage address translation (GVA->GPA->
> SPA).
> After setting the mode bit in DTE to 100b, I got lots of IO_PAGE_FAULT event
> but no any PPR request.

Did you also install a valid page-table before changing the mode-bit?

> While turn off the GPA-to-SPA translation, PPR request comes and no
> IO_PAGE_FAULT event.
> 
> My question is :
> In what situation IO_PAGE_FAULT event generate, and how about PRI request?
> Can IO_PAGE_FAULT event be fixed? (such as handle the page fault and send
> COMPLETE_PPR_REQUEST?)

Basic answer is, you get an IO_PAGE_FAULT for all translation errors in
the l1 page-table (the one where the page-table root it specified in the
DTE).

For any page-fault in l2 page-tables (where you have one page-table per
pasid) you get a PRI fault. But note that the peripheral PCI device needs to
support ATS and PRI for this to work.


	Joerg