RE: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

Chalamarla, Tirumalesh
2014-06-26T18:08:30Z

Forgive me if this discussion is not relative here, but I thought it is.

How is VFIO restricting devices from writing to MSI/MSI-X,
Is all the vector area is mapped by VFIO to trap the accesses. I am asking this because we might need to emulate ITS somewhere either in KVM or VFIO to provide direct access to devices.
And I don't see any mentions on that. I think this flag needs to be set by ITS emulation.

Regards,
Tirumalesh.

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From: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu [mailto:kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Joerg Roedel
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 8:39 AM
To: Will Deacon
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 04/20] iommu/arm-smmu: add capability IOMMU_CAP_INTR_REMAP

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 04:25:26PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Ok, thanks. In which case, I think this is really a combined property
> of the SMMU and the interrupt controller, so we might need some extra
> code so that the SMMU can check that the interrupt controller for the
> device is also capable of interrupt remapping.

Right, that this is part of IOMMU code has more or less historic reasons on x86. Interrupt remapping is purely implemented in the IOMMU there, so on ARM some clue-code between interrupt controler and smmu is needed.

Joerg

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