From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
To: <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v9 19/29] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update HW QUEUE
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:59:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <caa3ddc0d9bacf05c5b3e02c5f306ff3172cc54d.1752126748.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1752126748.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com>
With the introduction of the new object and its infrastructure, update the
doc to reflect that.
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
index b0df15865dec..03f7510384d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst
@@ -124,6 +124,17 @@ Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace:
used to allocate a vEVENTQ. Each vIOMMU can support multiple types of vEVENTS,
but is confined to one vEVENTQ per vEVENTQ type.
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_QUEUE, representing a hardware accelerated queue, as a subset
+ of IOMMU's virtualization features, for the IOMMU HW to directly read or write
+ the virtual queue memory owned by a guest OS. This HW-acceleration feature can
+ allow VM to work with the IOMMU HW directly without a VM Exit, so as to reduce
+ overhead from the hypercalls. Along with the HW QUEUE object, iommufd provides
+ user space an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from the
+ host physical address space to the guest physical address space, allowing the
+ guest OS to directly control the allocated HW QUEUE. Thus, when allocating a
+ HW QUEUE, the VMM must request a pair of mmap info (offset/length) and pass in
+ exactly to an mmap syscall via its offset and length arguments.
+
All user-visible objects are destroyed via the IOMMU_DESTROY uAPI.
The diagrams below show relationships between user-visible objects and kernel
@@ -270,6 +281,7 @@ User visible objects are backed by following datastructures:
- iommufd_viommu for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VIOMMU.
- iommufd_vdevice for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VDEVICE.
- iommufd_veventq for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VEVENTQ.
+- iommufd_hw_queue for IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_QUEUE.
Several terminologies when looking at these datastructures:
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-10 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-10 5:58 [PATCH v9 00/29] iommufd: Add vIOMMU infrastructure (Part-4 HW QUEUE) Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 01/29] iommufd: Report unmapped bytes in the error path of iopt_unmap_iova_range Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 02/29] iommufd: Correct virt_id kdoc at struct iommu_vdevice_alloc Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 03/29] iommufd/viommu: Explicitly define vdev->virt_id Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 04/29] iommu: Use enum iommu_hw_info_type for type in hw_info op Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 05/29] iommu: Add iommu_copy_struct_to_user helper Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 06/29] iommu: Pass in a driver-level user data structure to viommu_init op Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:58 ` [PATCH v9 07/29] iommufd/viommu: Allow driver-specific user data for a vIOMMU object Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 08/29] iommufd/selftest: Support user_data in mock_viommu_alloc Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 09/29] iommufd/selftest: Add coverage for viommu data Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 10/29] iommufd/access: Add internal APIs for HW queue to use Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 11/29] iommufd/access: Bypass access->ops->unmap for internal use Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 12/29] iommufd/viommu: Add driver-defined vDEVICE support Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 13/29] iommufd/viommu: Introduce IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_QUEUE and its related struct Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 14/29] iommufd/viommu: Add IOMMUFD_CMD_HW_QUEUE_ALLOC ioctl Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 15/29] iommufd/driver: Add iommufd_hw_queue_depend/undepend() helpers Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 16/29] iommufd/selftest: Add coverage for IOMMUFD_CMD_HW_QUEUE_ALLOC Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 11:36 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 17/29] iommufd: Add mmap interface Nicolin Chen
2025-07-14 6:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-07-14 12:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 18/29] iommufd/selftest: Add coverage for the new " Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 11:14 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-07-10 5:59 ` Nicolin Chen [this message]
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 20/29] iommu: Allow an input type in hw_info op Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 21/29] iommufd: Allow an input data_type via iommu_hw_info Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 22/29] iommufd/selftest: Update hw_info coverage for an input data_type Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 11:09 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-07-10 15:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-07-10 16:43 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-07-10 17:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-07-11 9:56 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 23/29] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd: Add vsmmu_size/type and vsmmu_init impl ops Nicolin Chen
2025-07-11 16:14 ` Will Deacon
2025-07-15 18:42 ` Nicolin Chen
2025-07-17 8:49 ` Will Deacon
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 24/29] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd: Add hw_info to impl_ops Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 25/29] iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Use request_threaded_irq Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 26/29] iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Simplify deinit flow in tegra241_cmdqv_remove_vintf() Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 27/29] iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Do not statically map LVCMDQs Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 28/29] iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Add user-space use support Nicolin Chen
2025-07-10 5:59 ` [PATCH v9 29/29] iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Add IOMMU_VEVENTQ_TYPE_TEGRA241_CMDQV support Nicolin Chen
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