On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 10:58:10PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> +- 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 an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from 
> the
> +  host physical address space to a guest physical address space, to 
> exclusively
> +  control the allocated vCMDQ HW. Thus, when allocating a vCMDQ, the VMM must
> +  request a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) for a later mmap call. The 
> length
> +  argument of an mmap call could be smaller than the given size for a 
> paritial
> +  mmap, but the given vm_pgoff (as the addr argument of the mmap call) should
"... partial mmap, ..."
> +  never be offsetted, which also implies that the mmap will always start from
> +  the beginning of the physical MMIO region.
> +
 
Thanks.

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