From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
To: <jgg@nvidia.com>, <kevin.tian@intel.com>, <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Subject: [PATCH v8 11/14] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update FAULT and VEVENTQ
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:25:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73e33f17df6df07286b8e32f004c2347d8fbfaa8.1740504232.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1740504232.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com>
With the introduction of the new objects, update the doc to reflect that.
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
index 70289d6815d2..b0df15865dec 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace:
space usually has mappings from guest-level I/O virtual addresses to guest-
level physical addresses.
+- IOMMUFD_FAULT, representing a software queue for an HWPT reporting IO page
+ faults using the IOMMU HW's PRI (Page Request Interface). This queue object
+ provides user space an FD to poll the page fault events and also to respond
+ to those events. A FAULT object must be created first to get a fault_id that
+ could be then used to allocate a fault-enabled HWPT via the IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC
+ command by setting the IOMMU_HWPT_FAULT_ID_VALID bit in its flags field.
+
- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VIOMMU, representing a slice of the physical IOMMU instance,
passed to or shared with a VM. It may be some HW-accelerated virtualization
features and some SW resources used by the VM. For examples:
@@ -109,6 +116,14 @@ Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace:
vIOMMU, which is a separate ioctl call from attaching the same device to an
HWPT_PAGING that the vIOMMU holds.
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VEVENTQ, representing a software queue for a vIOMMU to report its
+ events such as translation faults occurred to a nested stage-1 (excluding I/O
+ page faults that should go through IOMMUFD_OBJ_FAULT) and HW-specific events.
+ This queue object provides user space an FD to poll/read the vIOMMU events. A
+ vIOMMU object must be created first to get its viommu_id, which could be then
+ used to allocate a vEVENTQ. Each vIOMMU can support multiple types of vEVENTS,
+ but is confined to one vEVENTQ per vEVENTQ type.
+
All user-visible objects are destroyed via the IOMMU_DESTROY uAPI.
The diagrams below show relationships between user-visible objects and kernel
@@ -251,8 +266,10 @@ User visible objects are backed by following datastructures:
- iommufd_device for IOMMUFD_OBJ_DEVICE.
- iommufd_hwpt_paging for IOMMUFD_OBJ_HWPT_PAGING.
- iommufd_hwpt_nested for IOMMUFD_OBJ_HWPT_NESTED.
+- iommufd_fault for IOMMUFD_OBJ_FAULT.
- iommufd_viommu for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VIOMMU.
- iommufd_vdevice for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VDEVICE.
+- iommufd_veventq for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VEVENTQ.
Several terminologies when looking at these datastructures:
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-25 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-25 17:25 [PATCH v8 00/14] iommufd: Add vIOMMU infrastructure (Part-3: vEVENTQ) Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 01/14] iommufd/fault: Move two fault functions out of the header Nicolin Chen
2025-02-26 5:42 ` Baolu Lu
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 02/14] iommufd/fault: Add an iommufd_fault_init() helper Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 03/14] iommufd: Abstract an iommufd_eventq from iommufd_fault Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 04/14] iommufd: Rename fault.c to eventq.c Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 05/14] iommufd: Add IOMMUFD_OBJ_VEVENTQ and IOMMUFD_CMD_VEVENTQ_ALLOC Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 06/14] iommufd/viommu: Add iommufd_viommu_get_vdev_id helper Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 07/14] iommufd/viommu: Add iommufd_viommu_report_event helper Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 08/14] iommufd/selftest: Require vdev_id when attaching to a nested domain Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 09/14] iommufd/selftest: Add IOMMU_TEST_OP_TRIGGER_VEVENT for vEVENTQ coverage Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 10/14] iommufd/selftest: Add IOMMU_VEVENTQ_ALLOC test coverage Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` Nicolin Chen [this message]
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 12/14] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Introduce struct arm_smmu_vmaster Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:52 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-03-11 15:57 ` Will Deacon
2025-03-11 17:43 ` Nicolin Chen
2025-03-17 15:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-17 18:49 ` Nicolin Chen
2025-03-17 19:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-07 12:08 ` Zhangfei Gao
2025-04-07 17:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-04-07 18:00 ` Nicolin Chen
2025-04-08 11:44 ` Zhangfei Gao
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 13/14] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Report events that belong to devices attached to vIOMMU Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:57 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-03-11 15:56 ` Will Deacon
2025-03-11 16:26 ` Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:25 ` [PATCH v8 14/14] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Set MEV bit in nested STE for DoS mitigations Nicolin Chen
2025-02-25 17:59 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-03-11 15:56 ` Will Deacon
2025-03-01 4:16 ` [PATCH v8 00/14] iommufd: Add vIOMMU infrastructure (Part-3: vEVENTQ) Zhangfei Gao
2025-03-01 4:40 ` Nicolin Chen
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