diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/pci')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/pci/pci.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c index 97acba712e4e..ea4a9d3be9f9 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c @@ -5387,8 +5387,19 @@ int pci_set_vga_state(struct pci_dev *dev, bool decode, * @dev: the PCI device for which alias is added * @devfn: alias slot and function * - * This helper encodes 8-bit devfn as bit number in dma_alias_mask. - * It should be called early, preferably as PCI fixup header quirk. + * This helper encodes an 8-bit devfn as a bit number in dma_alias_mask + * which is used to program permissible bus-devfn source addresses for DMA + * requests in an IOMMU. These aliases factor into IOMMU group creation + * and are useful for devices generating DMA requests beyond or different + * from their logical bus-devfn. Examples include device quirks where the + * device simply uses the wrong devfn, as well as non-transparent bridges + * where the alias may be a proxy for devices in another domain. + * + * IOMMU group creation is performed during device discovery or addition, + * prior to any potential DMA mapping and therefore prior to driver probing + * (especially for userspace assigned devices where IOMMU group definition + * cannot be left as a userspace activity). DMA aliases should therefore + * be configured via quirks, such as the PCI fixup header quirk. */ void pci_add_dma_alias(struct pci_dev *dev, u8 devfn) { |