From: Will Deacon <will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] iommu: Allow default domain type to be set on the kernel command line
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:48:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170126174816.GO14167@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170126171555.GD27598-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 06:15:55PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:19:15PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Rather than modify each IOMMU driver to provide different semantics for
> > DMA domains, instead we introduce a command line parameter that can be
> > used to change the type of the default domain. Passthrough can then be
> > specified using "iommu.default_domain=identity" on the kernel command
> > line.
>
> I like the general idea of this, but the above is a terrible name for a
> kernel commandline-parameter. The x86 iommus support iommu=pt which is
> pretty much the same as this patch does.
Happy to bikeshed the name ;)
> How about something like "iommu.passthrough=0/1"? And please add the
> parameter to the kernel documentation too.
Sure, if you think that the identity domain is the only thing we'll ever
want to set (so far, it's the only thing people have asked me for).
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-26 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-19 18:19 [PATCH 0/5] Implement SMMU passthrough using the default domain Will Deacon
[not found] ` <1484849955-1871-1-git-send-email-will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-19 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] iommu/arm-smmu: Restrict domain attributes to UNMANAGED domains Will Deacon
[not found] ` <1484849955-1871-2-git-send-email-will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-19 18:41 ` Robin Murphy
[not found] ` <89d795b9-a6d7-7f41-705c-b918ee66ebf0-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-26 17:06 ` Joerg Roedel
2017-01-26 17:03 ` Joerg Roedel
[not found] ` <20170126170329.GB27598-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-26 17:57 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-19 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] iommu/arm-smmu: Install bypass S2CRs for IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY domains Will Deacon
2017-01-19 18:50 ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-19 18:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Install bypass STEs " Will Deacon
[not found] ` <1484849955-1871-4-git-send-email-will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-19 18:56 ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-19 18:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm64: dma-mapping: Only swizzle DMA ops for IOMMU_DOMAIN_DMA Will Deacon
[not found] ` <1484849955-1871-5-git-send-email-will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-19 19:00 ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-26 17:57 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-19 18:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] iommu: Allow default domain type to be set on the kernel command line Will Deacon
[not found] ` <1484849955-1871-6-git-send-email-will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-26 17:15 ` Joerg Roedel
[not found] ` <20170126171555.GD27598-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-26 17:26 ` Robin Murphy
2017-01-26 17:48 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2017-01-24 15:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] Implement SMMU passthrough using the default domain Sricharan
2017-01-26 17:18 ` Joerg Roedel
[not found] ` <20170126171857.GE27598-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-02 15:02 ` Rob Clark
[not found] ` <CAF6AEGtfrrwVZ_W86_HqVsiqfcM=XFa+g2LECFYQJmvv7-JSqQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-02 15:12 ` Will Deacon
[not found] ` <20170202151241.GE13839-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-03 12:20 ` Rob Clark
2017-02-02 15:45 ` Sricharan
2017-02-02 16:10 ` Will Deacon
[not found] ` <20170202161047.GG13839-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-03 16:33 ` Sricharan
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