On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote: > +- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VQUEUE, representing a hardware accelerated virtual queue, as a > + subset of IOMMU's virtualization features, for the IOMMU HW to directly > read > + or write the virtual queue memory owned by a guest OS. This HW-acceleration > + allows VM to work with the IOMMU HW directly without a VM Exit, i.e. > reducing > + overhead from the hypercalls. Along with this vQUEUE object, iommufd > provides > + user space an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from > the > + host physical address space to the guest physical address space, allowing > the > + guest OS to control the allocated vQUEUE HW. Thus, when allocating a > vQUEUE, > + the VMM must request a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) for an mmap > syscall. > + The length argument of an mmap syscall can be smaller than the given size > for > + a partial mmap, but the addr argument of the mmap syscall should never > offset > + from the returned vm_pgoff, which implies that an mmap will always start > from
Did you mean never be offset from returned vm_pgoff? > + the beginning of the physical MMIO region. > + Confused... -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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