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 <aik@ozlabs.ru>
[aw: for the vfio related changes]
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
diff --git a/Documentation/vfio.txt b/Documentation/vfio.txt
index dcc37e1..1dd3fdd 100644
--- a/Documentation/vfio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vfio.txt
@@ -464,6 +464,25 @@
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.
+
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[1] VFIO was originally an acronym for "Virtual Function I/O" in its
