Hi All, I am working on an IOMMU driver feature that allows a user to specify if the DMA from a device should be translated by IOMMU or not. Presently, we support only all devices or none mode i.e. if user specifies "iommu=pt" [X86] or "iommu.passthrough" [ARM64] through kernel command line, all the devices would be in pass through mode and we don't have per device granularity, but, we were requested by a customer to selectively put devices in pass through mode and not all.
Since, this feature could be generic across architectures, we thought it would be better if the user interface is discussed in the community first. We are envisioning this to be used both during boot time and runtime and hence having a kernel command line argument along with a sysfs entry are needed. So, please pour in your suggestions on how the user interface should look like to make it architecture agnostic. 1. Have a kernel command line argument that takes a list of BDF's as an input and puts them in pass through mode a. Accepting BDF as an input has a downside - BDF is dynamic and could change if BIOS/OS enumerates a new device in next reboot b. Accepting <vendor_id:device_id> pair as an input has a downside - What to do when there are multiple such devices and user would like to put only some of them in PT mode 2. Have a sysfs file which takes 1 or 0 as an input to enable/disable pass through mode. Some places that seem to be reasonable are a. /sys/class/iommu/dmar0/devices/ b. /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/<id>/devices I am looking for a consensus on *how the kernel command line argument should look like and path for sysfs entry*. Also, please note that if a device is put in pass through mode it won't be available for the guest and that's ok. Regards, Sai PS: Idea credits: Ashok Raj
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