@@ -124,6 +124,16 @@ Following IOMMUFD objects are exposed to userspace:
used to allocate a vEVENTQ. Each vIOMMU can support multiple types of vEVENTS,
but is confined to one vEVENTQ per vEVENTQ type.
+- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VCMDQ, representing a hardware queue as a subset of a vIOMMU's
+ virtualization feature for a VM to directly execute guest-issued commands to
+ invalidate HW cache entries holding the mappings or translations of a guest-
+ owned stage-1 page table. Along with this queue object, iommufd provides the
+ user space a new mmap interface that the VMM can mmap a physical MMIO region
+ from the host physical address space to a guest physical address space. To use
+ this mmap interface, the VMM must define an IOMMU specific driver structure
+ to ask for a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) to do mmap after a vCMDQ gets
+ allocated.
+
All user-visible objects are destroyed via the IOMMU_DESTROY uAPI.
The diagrams below show relationships between user-visible objects and kernel
@@ -270,6 +280,7 @@ User visible objects are backed by following datastructures:
- iommufd_viommu for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VIOMMU.
- iommufd_vdevice for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VDEVICE.
- iommufd_veventq for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VEVENTQ.
+- iommufd_vcmdq for IOMMUFD_OBJ_VCMDQ.
Several terminologies when looking at these datastructures:
With the introduction of the new object and its infrastructure, update the doc to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com> --- Documentation/userspace-api/iommufd.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)