RE: [PATCH 3/3 v18] iommu/fsl: Freescale PAMU driver and iommuimplementation.

[Sethi Varun-B16395]

Thanks Alex.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 8:05 PM
> To: Sethi Varun-B16395
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> benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Yoder Stuart-B08248;
> Wood Scott-B07421; Timur Tabi
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v18] iommu/fsl: Freescale PAMU driver and iommu
> implementation.
> 
> On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 15:41 +0530, Varun Sethi wrote:
> > Following is a brief description of the PAMU hardware:
> > PAMU determines what action to take and whether to authorize the
> > action on the basis of the memory address, a Logical IO Device Number
> > (LIODN), and PAACT table (logically) indexed by LIODN and address.
> > Hardware devices which need to access memory must provide an LIODN in
> addition to the memory address.
> >
> > Peripheral Access Authorization and Control Tables (PAACTs) are the
> > primary data structures used by PAMU. A PAACT is a table of peripheral
> > access authorization and control entries (PAACE).Each PAACE defines
> > the range of I/O bus address space that is accessible by the LIOD and
> > the associated access capabilities.
> >
> > There are two types of PAACTs: primary PAACT (PPAACT) and secondary
> > PAACT (SPAACT).A given physical I/O device may be able to act as one
> > or more independent logical I/O devices (LIODs). Each such logical I/O
> > device is assigned an identifier called logical I/O device number
> > (LIODN). A LIODN is allocated a contiguous portion of the I/O bus
> > address space called the DSA window for performing DSA operations. The
> > DSA window may optionally be divided into multiple sub-windows, each
> > of which may be used to map to a region in system storage space. The
> > first sub-window is referred to as the primary sub-window and the
> remaining are called secondary sub-windows.
> >
> > This patch provides the PAMU driver (fsl_pamu.c) and the corresponding
> > IOMMU API implementation (fsl_pamu_domain.c). The PAMU hardware driver
> > (fsl_pamu.c) has been derived from the work done by Ashish Kalra and
> Timur Tabi.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> For iommu group support
> 
> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

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