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Subject: Version Control Commit by mstsirkin
Author: mstsirkin Date: 2017-01-10 05:28:07 +0000 (Tue, 10 Jan 2017) New Revision: 587 Web View: https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/virtio/?rev=587&sc=1 Modified: trunk/content.tex Log: context: Document VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM reserved feature bit (33) On most virtio systems, physical addresses are provided from the driver to the device and subsequently used to access memory directly. However, some systems feature an IOMMU that complicates things slightly: - The IOMMU might require configuration for DMA to work at all. Once configured, the driver must pass bus addresses to the device, which are then translated by the IOMMU into physical addresses in memory. - The IOMMU might be bypassed by virtio DMA. In this case, physical addresses must still be provided to the device by the driver, even though an IOMMU appears to be present. This has been solved by the addition of a new reserved feature bit, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM, to describe the two cases above. Legacy systems will not negotiate the feature, and therefore continue to operate directly on physical addresses. VIRTIO-154 Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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