On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 10:50:07AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> 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?

Yes. Will fix this.

> > +  the beginning of the physical MMIO region.
> > +
> 
> Confused...

Meaning that VMM should just use the given vm_pgoff as is, without
adding any offset to the vm_pgoff.

Thanks
Nicolin

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