[PATCH v1 0/1] bus/pci: add RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_IOVA_AS_PA flag

[liujie5 at linkdatatechnology.com]

From: liufeng1 <liufeng1 at sugon.com>

This series adds a new PCI driver flag, RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_IOVA_AS_PA,
which allows a PCI driver to tell the PCI bus layer that it cannot work
with IOVA as VA and must use IOVA as PA.

The existing RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_IOVA_AS_VA flag already provides the
opposite requirement. Some PCI devices, however, are managed by a kernel
driver that uses an identity-mapped IOMMU domain (e.g. when the kernel
is booted with iommu=pt). The user-space PMD for such devices must use
IOVA as PA, because the DMA addresses programmed by DPDK must match the
identity mapping programmed by the kernel driver.

Without this flag, a PCI driver bound to a non-VFIO/UIO kernel driver
has no way to force IOVA as PA. pci_device_iova_mode() returns
RTE_IOVA_DC for those devices, and rte_eal_init() then sees an enabled
IOMMU and selects RTE_IOVA_VA, which breaks identity-domain PMDs and
forces users to pass --iova-mode=pa on the command line.

When RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_IOVA_AS_PA is set, pci_device_iova_mode() returns
RTE_IOVA_PA for the device. The requirement is propagated through
rte_pci_get_iommu_class() to rte_bus_get_iommu_class(), so
rte_eal_init() selects IOVA as PA automatically.

This is a generic mechanism: any PCI driver whose underlying kernel
driver uses an identity IOMMU domain can set the flag.

liufeng1 (1):
  bus/pci: add RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_IOVA_AS_PA flag

 drivers/bus/pci/bus_pci_driver.h | 2 ++
 drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c      | 4 ++++
 drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c     | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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