From e633bc86a922468a82300eef5b9802e17be5e23d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Kardashevskiy Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 16:35:26 +1000 Subject: vfio: powerpc/spapr: Support Dynamic DMA windows This adds create/remove window ioctls to create and remove DMA windows. sPAPR defines a Dynamic DMA windows capability which allows para-virtualized guests to create additional DMA windows on a PCI bus. The existing linux kernels use this new window to map the entire guest memory and switch to the direct DMA operations saving time on map/unmap requests which would normally happen in a big amounts. This adds 2 ioctl handlers - VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_CREATE and VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_REMOVE - to create and remove windows. Up to 2 windows are supported now by the hardware and by this driver. This changes VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_GET_INFO handler to return additional information such as a number of supported windows and maximum number levels of TCE tables. DDW is added as a capability, not as a SPAPR TCE IOMMU v2 unique feature as we still want to support v2 on platforms which cannot do DDW for the sake of TCE acceleration in KVM (coming soon). Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy [aw: for the vfio related changes] Acked-by: Alex Williamson Reviewed-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- Documentation/vfio.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/vfio.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/vfio.txt b/Documentation/vfio.txt index dcc37e109c68..1dd3fddfd3a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/vfio.txt +++ b/Documentation/vfio.txt @@ -464,6 +464,25 @@ address is from pre-registered range. This separation helps in optimizing DMA for guests. +6) sPAPR specification allows guests to have an additional DMA window(s) on +a PCI bus with a variable page size. Two ioctls have been added to support +this: VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_CREATE and VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_REMOVE. +The platform has to support the functionality or error will be returned to +the userspace. The existing hardware supports up to 2 DMA windows, one is +2GB long, uses 4K pages and called "default 32bit window"; the other can +be as big as entire RAM, use different page size, it is optional - guests +create those in run-time if the guest driver supports 64bit DMA. + +VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_CREATE receives a page shift, a DMA window size and +a number of TCE table levels (if a TCE table is going to be big enough and +the kernel may not be able to allocate enough of physically contiguous memory). +It creates a new window in the available slot and returns the bus address where +the new window starts. Due to hardware limitation, the user space cannot choose +the location of DMA windows. + +VFIO_IOMMU_SPAPR_TCE_REMOVE receives the bus start address of the window +and removes it. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] VFIO was originally an acronym for "Virtual Function I/O" in its -- cgit v1.2.3