On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:21:23AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Some IOMMUs, such as the ARM SMMU, support two stages of translation.
> The idea behind such a scheme is to allow a guest operating system to
> use the IOMMU for DMA mappings in the first stage of translation, with
> the hypervisor then installing mappings in the second stage to provide
> isolation of the DMA to the physical range assigned to that virtual
> machine.
> 
> In order to allow IOMMU domains to be used for second-stage translation,
> this patch adds a new iommu_attr (IOMMU_ATTR_NESTING) for setting
> second-stage domains prior to device attach. The attribute can also be
> queried to see if a domain is actually making use of nesting.
> 
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>

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