On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 04:59:07PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
Is it feasible to make vIOMMU object more generic, rather than strictly tying it to nested translation? For example, a normal paging domain that translates gPAs to hPAs could also have a vIOMMU object associated with it.
While we can only support vIOMMU object allocation uAPI for S2 paging domains in the context of this series, we could consider leaving the option open to associate a vIOMMU object with other normal paging domains that are not a nested parent?
Why? The nested parent flavour of the domain is basically free to create, what reason would be to not do that?
If the HW doesn't support it, then does the HW really need/support a VIOMMU?
I suppose it could be made up to the driver, but for now I think we should leave it as is in the core code requiring it until we have a reason to relax it.
Jason