Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [RFCv3 2/2] dma-buf: add helpers for sharing attacher constraints with dma-parms

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:42:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Right, if you have a private iommu, there is no problem. The tricky part is using a single driver for the system-level translation and the gpu private mappings when there is only one type of iommu in the system.

You've got a problem anyway with this approach. If you look at my figure 2 and apply it to this scenario, you have two MMUs stacked on top of each other. That's something that (afaik) we don't support, but it's entirely possible that will come along with ARM64.

It may not be nice to have to treat GPUs specially, but I think we really do need to, and forget the idea that the GPU's IOMMU (as opposed to a system MMU) should appear in a generic form in DT.