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From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com>,
	iommu@lists.linux.dev, suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] iommu/amd: Add Generic IO Page Table Framework Support for v2 Page Table
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:47:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c48211fe-00b1-e679-21b8-00a85bba599a@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YxnuYTrkC5yoHH84@8bytes.org>

On 2022-09-08 14:30, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 10:19:18AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> What is the use case for having PASID nested under another level of
>> translation?
> 
> Virtualization. Basically having a device access process address spaces
> inside a virtual machine. That got never put into code, but it was the
> rationale behind it.

For SMMUv3 it did actually get as far as a prototype[1] before the 
iommufd work interjected. I believe there are cloud vendors using those 
patches in their deployments :O

Cheers,
Robin.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20210423095147.27922-1-vivek.gautam@arm.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-25  6:39 [PATCH v3 0/9] iommu/amd: Add Generic IO Page Table Framework Support for v2 Page Table Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] iommu/amd/io-pgtable: Implement map_pages io_pgtable_ops callback Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] iommu/amd/io-pgtable: Implement unmap_pages " Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] iommu/amd: Add map/unmap_pages() iommu_domain_ops callback support Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] iommu/amd: Refactor amd_iommu_domain_enable_v2 to remove locking Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] iommu/amd: Update sanity check when enable PRI/ATS for IOMMU v1 table Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] iommu/amd: Initial support for AMD IOMMU v2 page table Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] iommu/amd: Add support for Guest IO protection Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] iommu/amd: Add support for using AMD IOMMU v2 page table for DMA-API Vasant Hegde
2022-08-25  6:39 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] iommu/amd: Add command-line option to enable different page table Vasant Hegde
2022-09-05 11:39 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] iommu/amd: Add Generic IO Page Table Framework Support for v2 Page Table Vasant Hegde
2022-09-06 16:35   ` Robin Murphy
2022-09-07 14:16     ` Joerg Roedel
2022-09-07 16:52       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-07 18:16         ` Robin Murphy
2022-09-08  0:12           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-08 12:20         ` Joerg Roedel
2022-09-08 12:53           ` Robin Murphy
2022-09-08 13:19             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-08 13:30               ` Joerg Roedel
2022-09-08 13:47                 ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2022-09-08 13:58                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-08 15:23                     ` Robin Murphy
2022-09-09  1:24                       ` Baolu Lu
2022-09-09  7:51                         ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-07 14:14 ` Joerg Roedel

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