Re: [RFC v2 8/8] iommu/arm-smmu: implement add_reserved_regions callback

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Nov 10 2016 - 11:16:27 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:07:08PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 10/11/16 15:46, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:24:06AM +0000, Eric Auger wrote:
> >> + resource_list_for_each_entry(window, &bridge->windows) {
> >> + if (resource_type(window->res) != IORESOURCE_MEM &&
> >> + resource_type(window->res) != IORESOURCE_IO)
> >> + continue;
> >
> > Why do you care about IO resources?
>
> [since this is essentially code I wrote]
>
> Because they occupy some area of the PCI address space, therefore I
> assumed that, like memory windows, they would be treated as P2P. Is that
> not the case?

No, not at all. The IO-space is completly seperate from the MEM-space.
They are two different address-spaces, addressing different things. And
the IO-space is also not translated by any IOMMU I am aware of.


Joerg