Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] Add Nested Translation Support for SMMUv3

[Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 08:11:28AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
 
> > From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 11:33 AM
> >
> > One unique requirement for SMMUv3 nested translation support is the MSI
> > doorbell address translation, which is a 2-stage translation too. And,
> > to working with the ITS driver, an msi_cookie needs to be setup on the
> > kernel-managed domain, the stage-2 domain of the nesting setup. And the
> > same msi_cookie will be fetched, via
> > iommu_dma_get_msi_mapping_domain(),
> > in the iommu core to allocate and creates IOVA mappings for MSI doorbell
> > page(s). However, with the nesting design, the device is attached to a
> > user-managed domain, the stage-1 domain. So both the setup and fetching
> > of the msi_cookie would not work at the level of stage-2 domain. Thus,
> > on both sides, the msi_cookie setup and fetching require a redirection
> > of the domain pointer. It's easy to do so in iommufd core, but needs a
> > new op in the iommu core and driver.
> >
> 
> Looks the new preferred way is to map the physical ITS page to an IPA
> provided by Qemu then let the guest allocate the cookie in S1 which
> is then passed back by Qemu to the host kernel? [1]
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/5ff0d72b-a7b8-c8a9-60e5-396e7a1ef363@arm.com/

Hmm..is that something firm to implement at this stage?

Thank you
Nicolin