On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:54:59 +0000
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.bruc...@arm.com> wrote:
> /*
> * Note: I tried to synthesize what I believe would be useful to
> device
> * drivers and guests, with regards to the kind of faults that the ARM
> * SMMU is capable of reporting. Other IOMMUs may report more or less
> * fault reasons, and I guess one should try to associate the faults
> * reason that matches best a generic one when reporting a fault.
> *
> * Finer reason granularity is probably not useful to anyone, and
> * coarser granularity would require more work from intermediate
> * components processing the fault to figure out what happened, whose
> * fault it actually is and where to route it (process vs. device
> driver
> * vs. vIOMMU driver misprogamming tables).
> */
> enum iommu_fault_reason {
> IOMMU_FAULT_REASON_UNKNOWN = 0,
>
can we add one for iommu internal error, the specifics may not be
useful for the device drivers, but it is good to know iommu is
faulting, perhaps can take action that inform driver users.
i.e.
/* IOMMU internal error, no specific reason to report out */
IOMMU_FAULT_REASON_INTERNAL,
> /* Could not access the PASID table */
> IOMMU_FAULT_REASON_PASID_FETCH,
[Jacob Pan]
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