RE: [RFC 01/13] iommu: Introduce bind_guest_stage API

From: Tian, Kevin
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 20:37:11 EST


> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker [mailto:jean-philippe.brucker@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 5:53 PM
>
> On 04/09/2018 09:41, Auger Eric wrote:
> > I think the confusion comes from the different terminology used in VTD
> > and ARM SMMU spec.
> >
> > Your PASID table ~ ARM SMMU Context Descriptor (CD) table
> > Your Root Entry/Context Entry ~ ARM SMMU Stream Table Entry (STE)
>
> In past discussions we used "PASID table (entry)" and "device context"
> respectively. For clarity we should probably stick to those names unless
> we discuss arch-specific patches
>

yes, that is a good abstraction. let's try to use them in related discussions
and patch series.

Thanks
Kevin