> From: Paul Durrant [mailto:paul.durr...@citrix.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 4:56 PM
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.t...@intel.com]
> > Sent: 07 August 2018 09:48
> > To: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>; Jan Beulich
> > <jbeul...@suse.com>
> > Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>; xen-devel <xen-
> > de...@lists.xenproject.org>
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 09/15] vtd: add lookup_page method to
> iommu_ops
> >
> > > From: Paul Durrant [mailto:paul.durr...@citrix.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 4:37 PM
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.t...@intel.com]
> > > > Sent: 07 August 2018 09:33
> > > > To: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>; Paul Durrant
> > > > <paul.durr...@citrix.com>
> > > > Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>; xen-devel <xen-
> > > > de...@lists.xenproject.org>
> > > > Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 09/15] vtd: add lookup_page method to
> > > iommu_ops
> > > >
> > > > > From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 4:30 PM
> > > > >
> > > > > >>> On 07.08.18 at 10:21, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > > > >> From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.t...@intel.com]
> > > > > >> Sent: 07 August 2018 04:25
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> > From: Paul Durrant [mailto:paul.durr...@citrix.com]
> > > > > >> > Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2018 1:22 AM
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > --- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/iommu.c
> > > > > >> > +++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/vtd/iommu.c
> > > > > >> > @@ -1830,6 +1830,39 @@ static int __must_check
> > > > > >> > intel_iommu_unmap_page(struct domain *d,
> > > > > >> >      return dma_pte_clear_one(d, bfn_to_baddr(bfn));
> > > > > >> >  }
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > +static int intel_iommu_lookup_page(struct domain *d, bfn_t
> bfn,
> > > > > mfn_t
> > > > > >> > *mfn,
> > > > > >> > +                                   unsigned int *flags)
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Not looking at later patches yet... but in concept bfn address
> > > > > >> space is per device instead of per domain.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Not in this case. Xen has always maintained a single IOMMU
> address
> > > per
> > > > > > virtual machine. That is what BFN refers to.
> > > > >
> > > > > Nut is that a model we can maintain mid and long term? In
> particular
> > > > > on ARM, where Julien has told me a single system could have
> multiple
> > > > > _different_ IOMMUs, I could easily see the address spaces diverging.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > multiple IOMMUs is another thing.
> > > >
> > > > what I questioned is that even one IOMMU needs to support mulitiple
> > > > address spaces. That is the point of an IOMMU...
> > >
> > > Indeed and that is why we use it to enforce domain separation. I see no
> > > need, as yet, to enforce separation within a domain. That need may
> arise
> > > later and the code can be modified at that point.
> > >
> >
> > but then you need completely different set of APIs at that time...
> 
> Ok. Would you be happy if I add the option to supply a an SBDF in the map
> and unmap hypercalls but ignore the value for now? Or even have a 'global'
> flag but return -EOPNOTSUPP if it is not specified. That would avoid the
> need to add new hypercalls for per-device mapping.
> 

that would be better! maybe also worthy of a capability query interface
to tell whether global or per-bdf mapping is supported?

Thanks
Kevin

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