On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 04:26:32PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: > From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <[email protected]> > > Some devices might support multiple DMA address spaces, in particular > those that have the PCI PASID feature. PASID (Process Address Space ID) > allows to share process address spaces with devices (SVA), partition a > device into VM-assignable entities (VFIO mdev) or simply provide > multiple DMA address space to kernel drivers. Add a global PASID > allocator usable by different drivers at the same time. Name it I/O ASID > to avoid confusion with ASIDs allocated by arch code, which are usually > a separate ID space. > > The IOASID space is global. Each device can have its own PASID space, > but by convention the IOMMU ended up having a global PASID space, so > that with SVA, each mm_struct is associated to a single PASID. > > The allocator is primarily used by IOMMU subsystem but in rare occasions > drivers would like to allocate PASIDs for devices that aren't managed by > an IOMMU, using the same ID space as IOMMU. > > Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <[email protected]>
