Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v1 0/7] IOMMU support

[Avi Kivity]

On 10/12/2012 04:36 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 15:26 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> These patches add IOMMU support to the memory core. IOMMUs can be added 
>> anywhere in
>> the memory hierarchy, and may be arranged in series.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to review in details yet, but one thing I noticed
> is that you basically have a single read/write protection information
> for a translation.
> 
> This is a loss of functionality to some extent (well, maybe not from the
> existing iommu layer but from what could be done by our HW) in that we
> have separate read and write permission bits.
> 
> This is actually worth fixing I think. Catching incorrect reads from
> write-only regions is probably worth it in term of debugging drivers.
> 

I do have an is_write parameter to translate, in fact I added it in
order to implement the spapr iommu.  Or do you mean something else?



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