Re: [PATCH 06/11] RISC-V: drivers/iommu/riscv: Add command, fault, page-req queues

From: Zong Li
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 20:38:12 EST


On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:35 AM Nick Kossifidis <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/31/23 16:15, Zong Li wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 5:32 PM Nick Kossifidis <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 7/29/23 15:58, Zong Li wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 3:34 AM Tomasz Jeznach <tjeznach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> + iommu->cap = riscv_iommu_readq(iommu, RISCV_IOMMU_REG_CAP);
> >>>> +
> >>>> + /* For now we only support WSIs until we have AIA support */
> >>>
> >>> I'm not completely understand AIA support here, because I saw the pci
> >>> case uses the MSI, and kernel seems to have the AIA implementation.
> >>> Could you please elaborate it?
> >>>
> >>
> >> When I wrote this we didn't have AIA in the kernel, and without IMSIC we
> >> can't have MSIs in the hart (we can still have MSIs in the PCIe controller).
> >
> > Thanks for your clarification, do we support the MSI in next version?
> >
>
> I don't think there is an IOMMU implementation out there (emulated or in
> hw) that can do MSIs and is not a pcie device (the QEMU implementation
> is a pcie device). If we have something to test this against, and we
> also have an IMSIC etc, we can work on that.

I guess I can assist with that. We have an IOMMU hardware (non-pcie
device) that has already implemented the MSI functionality, and I have
conducted testing on it. Perhaps let me add the related implementation
here after this series is merged.