4 The architecture spec can be obtained from the below location.
6 http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/
8 This guide gives a quick cheat sheet for some basic understanding.
13 DRHD - DMA Engine Reporting Structure
14 RMRR - Reserved memory Region Reporting Structure
15 ZLR - Zero length reads from PCI devices
16 IOVA - IO Virtual address.
21 ACPI enumerates and lists the different DMA engines in the platform, and
22 device scope relationships between PCI devices and which DMA engine controls
28 There are some devices the BIOS controls, for e.g USB devices to perform
29 PS2 emulation. The regions of memory used for these devices are marked
30 reserved in the e820 map. When we turn on DMA translation, DMA to those
31 regions will fail. Hence BIOS uses RMRR to specify these regions along with
32 devices that need to access these regions. OS is expected to setup
33 unity mappings for these regions for these devices to access these regions.
35 How is IOVA generated?
38 Well behaved drivers call pci_map_*() calls before sending command to device
39 that needs to perform DMA. Once DMA is completed and mapping is no longer
40 required, device performs a pci_unmap_*() calls to unmap the region.
42 The Intel IOMMU driver allocates a virtual address per domain. Each PCIE
43 device has its own domain (hence protection). Devices under p2p bridges
44 share the virtual address with all devices under the p2p bridge due to
45 transaction id aliasing for p2p bridges.
47 IOVA generation is pretty generic. We used the same technique as vmalloc()
48 but these are not global address spaces, but separate for each domain.
49 Different DMA engines may support different number of domains.
51 We also allocate guard pages with each mapping, so we can attempt to catch
52 any overflow that might happen.
57 If you encounter issues with graphics devices, you can try adding
58 option intel_iommu=igfx_off to turn off the integrated graphics engine.
59 If this fixes anything, please ensure you file a bug reporting the problem.
61 Some exceptions to IOVA
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63 Interrupt ranges are not address translated, (0xfee00000 - 0xfeefffff).
64 The same is true for peer to peer transactions. Hence we reserve the
65 address from PCI MMIO ranges so they are not allocated for IOVA addresses.
70 When errors are reported, the DMA engine signals via an interrupt. The fault
71 reason and device that caused it with fault reason is printed on console.
79 Something like this gets printed indicating presence of DMAR tables
82 ACPI: DMAR (v001 A M I OEMDMAR 0x00000001 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x000000007f5b5ef0
84 When DMAR is being processed and initialized by ACPI, prints DMAR locations
85 and any RMRR's processed.
87 ACPI DMAR:Host address width 36
88 ACPI DMAR:DRHD (flags: 0x00000000)base: 0x00000000fed90000
89 ACPI DMAR:DRHD (flags: 0x00000000)base: 0x00000000fed91000
90 ACPI DMAR:DRHD (flags: 0x00000001)base: 0x00000000fed93000
91 ACPI DMAR:RMRR base: 0x00000000000ed000 end: 0x00000000000effff
92 ACPI DMAR:RMRR base: 0x000000007f600000 end: 0x000000007fffffff
94 When DMAR is enabled for use, you will notice..
96 PCI-DMA: Using DMAR IOMMU
101 DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 6df084000
102 DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set
103 DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr 6df084000
104 DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set
109 - For compatibility testing, could use unity map domain for all devices, just
110 provide a 1-1 for all useful memory under a single domain for all devices.
111 - API for paravirt ops for abstracting functionality for VMM folks.