[RFC PATCH 00/12] Private MMIO support for private assigned dev

Xu Yilun yilun.xu at linux.intel.com
Sat May 17 02:33:00 UTC 2025


On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 09:49:53AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 02:19:45PM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote:
> > > I don't know why you'd disable a viommu while the VM is running,
> > > doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > Here it means remove the CC setup for viommu, shared setup is still
> > kept.
> 
> That might makes sense for the vPCI function, but not the vIOMMU. A
> secure VIOMMU needs to be running at all times while the guest is
> running. Perhaps it has no devices it can be used with, but it's
> functionality has to be there because a driver in the VM will be
> connected to it.
> 
> At most "bind" should only tell the already existing secure vIOMMU
> that it is allowed to translate for a specific vPCI function.

So I think something like:

struct iommufd_vdevice_ops {
	int (*setup_trusted_dma)(struct iommufd_vdevice *vdev); //for Bind
	void (*remove_trusted_dma)(struct iommufd_vdevice *vdev); //for Unbind
};

Thanks,
Yilun

> 
> Jason
> 


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