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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst index b0df15865dec..f1c4d21e5c5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace: - IOMMUFD_OBJ_HWPT_PAGING, representing an actual hardware I/O page table (i.e. a single struct iommu_domain) managed by the iommu driver. "PAGING" - primarly indicates this type of HWPT should be linked to an IOAS. It also + primarily indicates this type of HWPT should be linked to an IOAS. It also indicates that it is backed by an iommu_domain with __IOMMU_DOMAIN_PAGING feature flag. This can be either an UNMANAGED stage-1 domain for a device running in the user space, or a nesting parent stage-2 domain for mappings @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace: * Security namespace for guest owned ID, e.g. guest-controlled cache tags * Non-device-affiliated event reporting, e.g. invalidation queue errors - * Access to a sharable nesting parent pagetable across physical IOMMUs + * Access to a shareable nesting parent pagetable across physical IOMMUs * Virtualization of various platforms IDs, e.g. RIDs and others * Delivery of paravirtualized invalidation * Direct assigned invalidation queues @@ -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: |