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From: Hari Kanigeri <hari.kanigeri@gmail.com>
To: Zach Pfeffer <zpfeffer@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:51:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTilQnopqrS-KrR3btOIkH68fIEdipWFF6fkO6fNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2D0FF1.6010206@codeaurora.org>

> The VCMM takes the long view. Its designed for a future in which the
> number of IOMMUs will go up and the ways in which these IOMMUs are
> composed will vary from system to system, and may vary at
> runtime. Already, there are ~20 different IOMMU map implementations in
> the kernel. Had the Linux kernel had the VCMM, many of those
> implementations could have leveraged the mapping and topology management
> of a VCMM, while focusing on a few key hardware specific functions (map
> this physical address, program the page table base register).
>

-- Sounds good.
Did you think of a way to handle the cases where one of the Device
that is using the mapped address crashed ?
How is the physical address unbacked in this case ?

Hari

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-01 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-30  5:55 [RFC 1/3] mm: iommu: An API to unify IOMMU, CPU and device memory management Zach Pfeffer
2010-06-30  5:55 ` [RFC 2/3] mm: iommu: A physical allocator for the VCMM Zach Pfeffer
2010-06-30  5:55 ` [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 17:17   ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-01 18:02     ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-01 19:28       ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 19:38         ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-01 19:42           ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 22:15             ` Hari Kanigeri
2010-07-02  7:09               ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:36                 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13  5:21                   ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-14 19:34                     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-15  1:18                       ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:00           ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:05             ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02  7:33               ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:56                 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13  5:46                   ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-13  5:59                     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13  8:20                       ` Alan Cox
2010-07-13  8:30                         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13  8:42                           ` Alan Cox
2010-07-13  8:45                             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-13  9:02                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-14  1:59                                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22  3:50                                   ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-22  4:47                                     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-22 16:33                                       ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-22  7:51                                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-22 16:13                                       ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-13 12:06                       ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 22:51             ` Hari Kanigeri [this message]
2010-07-02  7:29               ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 23:00             ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-02  6:17               ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-02  8:22                 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-02 18:42                   ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 15:11                 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13  5:52                   ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-03  6:36               ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-10 14:54             ` Joerg Roedel
2010-07-13  5:27               ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-01 20:59     ` Paul Walmsley
2010-07-01 21:48       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-30 23:40 ` [RFC 1/3] mm: iommu: An API to unify IOMMU, CPU and device memory management Randy Dunlap
2010-07-01  7:16   ` Zach Pfeffer
2010-07-02  7:00     ` Paul Mundt

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