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author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2018-05-31 14:50:52 +0100 |
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committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2018-05-31 14:50:52 +0100 |
commit | 2ce931d01290d450a9c9b5fa00d1347535230b4c (patch) | |
tree | e663216e75e4df2408554b59be0042c33b6f5b1e | |
parent | 5deac39cd94e11d72b6ca8663fbf369691a33dc8 (diff) | |
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memory.h: Improve IOMMU related documentation
Add more detail to the documentation for memory_region_init_iommu()
and other IOMMU-related functions and data structures.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180521140402.23318-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org
-rw-r--r-- | include/exec/memory.h | 105 |
1 files changed, 95 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h index 525619a..267aa5f 100644 --- a/include/exec/memory.h +++ b/include/exec/memory.h @@ -194,29 +194,100 @@ enum IOMMUMemoryRegionAttr { IOMMU_ATTR_SPAPR_TCE_FD }; +/** + * IOMMUMemoryRegionClass: + * + * All IOMMU implementations need to subclass TYPE_IOMMU_MEMORY_REGION + * and provide an implementation of at least the @translate method here + * to handle requests to the memory region. Other methods are optional. + * + * The IOMMU implementation must use the IOMMU notifier infrastructure + * to report whenever mappings are changed, by calling + * memory_region_notify_iommu() (or, if necessary, by calling + * memory_region_notify_one() for each registered notifier). + */ typedef struct IOMMUMemoryRegionClass { /* private */ struct DeviceClass parent_class; /* - * Return a TLB entry that contains a given address. Flag should - * be the access permission of this translation operation. We can - * set flag to IOMMU_NONE to mean that we don't need any - * read/write permission checks, like, when for region replay. + * Return a TLB entry that contains a given address. + * + * The IOMMUAccessFlags indicated via @flag are optional and may + * be specified as IOMMU_NONE to indicate that the caller needs + * the full translation information for both reads and writes. If + * the access flags are specified then the IOMMU implementation + * may use this as an optimization, to stop doing a page table + * walk as soon as it knows that the requested permissions are not + * allowed. If IOMMU_NONE is passed then the IOMMU must do the + * full page table walk and report the permissions in the returned + * IOMMUTLBEntry. (Note that this implies that an IOMMU may not + * return different mappings for reads and writes.) + * + * The returned information remains valid while the caller is + * holding the big QEMU lock or is inside an RCU critical section; + * if the caller wishes to cache the mapping beyond that it must + * register an IOMMU notifier so it can invalidate its cached + * information when the IOMMU mapping changes. + * + * @iommu: the IOMMUMemoryRegion + * @hwaddr: address to be translated within the memory region + * @flag: requested access permissions */ IOMMUTLBEntry (*translate)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, hwaddr addr, IOMMUAccessFlags flag); - /* Returns minimum supported page size */ + /* Returns minimum supported page size in bytes. + * If this method is not provided then the minimum is assumed to + * be TARGET_PAGE_SIZE. + * + * @iommu: the IOMMUMemoryRegion + */ uint64_t (*get_min_page_size)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu); - /* Called when IOMMU Notifier flag changed */ + /* Called when IOMMU Notifier flag changes (ie when the set of + * events which IOMMU users are requesting notification for changes). + * Optional method -- need not be provided if the IOMMU does not + * need to know exactly which events must be notified. + * + * @iommu: the IOMMUMemoryRegion + * @old_flags: events which previously needed to be notified + * @new_flags: events which now need to be notified + */ void (*notify_flag_changed)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, IOMMUNotifierFlag old_flags, IOMMUNotifierFlag new_flags); - /* Set this up to provide customized IOMMU replay function */ + /* Called to handle memory_region_iommu_replay(). + * + * The default implementation of memory_region_iommu_replay() is to + * call the IOMMU translate method for every page in the address space + * with flag == IOMMU_NONE and then call the notifier if translate + * returns a valid mapping. If this method is implemented then it + * overrides the default behaviour, and must provide the full semantics + * of memory_region_iommu_replay(), by calling @notifier for every + * translation present in the IOMMU. + * + * Optional method -- an IOMMU only needs to provide this method + * if the default is inefficient or produces undesirable side effects. + * + * Note: this is not related to record-and-replay functionality. + */ void (*replay)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, IOMMUNotifier *notifier); - /* Get IOMMU misc attributes */ - int (*get_attr)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, enum IOMMUMemoryRegionAttr, + /* Get IOMMU misc attributes. This is an optional method that + * can be used to allow users of the IOMMU to get implementation-specific + * information. The IOMMU implements this method to handle calls + * by IOMMU users to memory_region_iommu_get_attr() by filling in + * the arbitrary data pointer for any IOMMUMemoryRegionAttr values that + * the IOMMU supports. If the method is unimplemented then + * memory_region_iommu_get_attr() will always return -EINVAL. + * + * @iommu: the IOMMUMemoryRegion + * @attr: attribute being queried + * @data: memory to fill in with the attribute data + * + * Returns 0 on success, or a negative errno; in particular + * returns -EINVAL for unrecognized or unimplemented attribute types. + */ + int (*get_attr)(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu, enum IOMMUMemoryRegionAttr attr, void *data); } IOMMUMemoryRegionClass; @@ -705,6 +776,14 @@ static inline void memory_region_init_reservation(MemoryRegion *mr, * An IOMMU region translates addresses and forwards accesses to a target * memory region. * + * The IOMMU implementation must define a subclass of TYPE_IOMMU_MEMORY_REGION. + * @_iommu_mr should be a pointer to enough memory for an instance of + * that subclass, @instance_size is the size of that subclass, and + * @mrtypename is its name. This function will initialize @_iommu_mr as an + * instance of the subclass, and its methods will then be called to handle + * accesses to the memory region. See the documentation of + * #IOMMUMemoryRegionClass for further details. + * * @_iommu_mr: the #IOMMUMemoryRegion to be initialized * @instance_size: the IOMMUMemoryRegion subclass instance size * @mrtypename: the type name of the #IOMMUMemoryRegion @@ -953,6 +1032,8 @@ void memory_region_register_iommu_notifier(MemoryRegion *mr, * a notifier with the minimum page granularity returned by * mr->iommu_ops->get_page_size(). * + * Note: this is not related to record-and-replay functionality. + * * @iommu_mr: the memory region to observe * @n: the notifier to which to replay iommu mappings */ @@ -962,6 +1043,8 @@ void memory_region_iommu_replay(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu_mr, IOMMUNotifier *n); * memory_region_iommu_replay_all: replay existing IOMMU translations * to all the notifiers registered. * + * Note: this is not related to record-and-replay functionality. + * * @iommu_mr: the memory region to observe */ void memory_region_iommu_replay_all(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu_mr); @@ -981,7 +1064,9 @@ void memory_region_unregister_iommu_notifier(MemoryRegion *mr, * memory_region_iommu_get_attr: return an IOMMU attr if get_attr() is * defined on the IOMMU. * - * Returns 0 if succeded, error code otherwise. + * Returns 0 on success, or a negative errno otherwise. In particular, + * -EINVAL indicates that the IOMMU does not support the requested + * attribute. * * @iommu_mr: the memory region * @attr: the requested attribute |