Hi,

On 2/12/19 3:28 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

I'm looking at commit 562831747f6299abd481b5b00bd4fa19d5c8a259
which fails to adequately explain why we can't use PASID 0.  Commit
af39507305fb83a5d3c475c2851f4d59545d8a18 also doesn't explain why PASID
0 is no longer usable for the intel-svm driver.

Sorry that we didn't make it clear.


There are a load of simplifications that could be made to this, but I
don't know which ones to suggest without a clear understanding of the
problem you're actually trying to solve.


PASID 0 has been reserved by Intel IOMMU driver for RID_PASID purpose.

VT-d scalable mode treats all address translation as PASID granularity.
For DMA requests-with-PASID, the PASID value in the DMA request will be
used. For DMA requests-without-PASID, VT-d will use a static PASID value
specified in the RID_PASID field of the context entry. PASID 0 has been
reserved for this usage for all devices.

(Please refer to 9.4 of the spec 3.0 for more details.)

Best regards,
Lu Baolu
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