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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Cc: will@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com, joro@8bytes.org,
	jpb@kernel.org, praan@google.com, miko.lenczewski@arm.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allocate vmid in arm_vsmmu_init
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:11:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260127151138.GI1134360@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aXgrsJeXB3bpFQqK@Asurada-Nvidia>

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 07:06:24PM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 05:16:36PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 05:24:24PM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > > VMID owned by a vSMMU should be allocated in the viommu_init callback, as
> > > HW like tegra241-cmdqv needs to setup VINTF with the VMID.
> > 
> > Even the architected SMMU needs this, the VMS (not implemented in
> > Linux) should all share the same VMID for the same VM.
> 
> But for standard SMMU, the allocation/sharing could happen at the
> device attachment to a nested (maybe bypass proxy) domain, right?
> 
> vmid is only needed for STE (attach) and invalidation.
> 
> Or do you see some other case where vmid must be allocated during
> viommu_init?

It has to be tied to the VSMMU, it doesn't matter if a single VMID is
allocated on-demand for the VSMMU or for the lifetime, it has to be a
single ID and shared across all STEs.

It is easy to understand that lifecycle by just allocating it for the
lifetime of the VSMMU..

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-27 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-22  1:24 [PATCH v2 00/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Share domain across SMMU/vSMMU instances Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Store IOTLB cache tags in struct arm_smmu_attach_state Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 20:44   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27  3:23     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 15:08       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27 16:58         ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Pass in IOTLB cache tag to CD and STE Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 20:53   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27  3:28     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Look for existing iotlb tag in smmu_domain->invs Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 21:03   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27  2:50     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allocate IOTLB cache tag if no id to reuse Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 21:06   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-26 22:23     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 16:29       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27 16:52         ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Flush iotlb in arm_smmu_iotlb_tag_free() Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 21:08   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27  2:56     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 15:09       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allocate vmid in arm_vsmmu_init Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 21:16   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27  3:06     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 15:11       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2026-01-27 17:11         ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 17:58           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Pass in vsmmu to arm_smmu_domain_get_iotlb_tag() Nicolin Chen
2026-01-26 21:20   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27  3:34     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Introduce INV_TYPE_S2_VMID_VSMMU Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 15:13   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Remove ASID/VMID from arm_smmu_domain Nicolin Chen
2026-01-22  1:24 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allow sharing domain across SMMUs Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 15:41   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-27 17:50     ` Nicolin Chen
2026-01-27 17:59       ` Jason Gunthorpe

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