RE: [PATCH v13 07/15] iommu/smmuv3: Allow stage 1 invalidation with unmanaged ASIDs

From: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
Date: Fri Dec 04 2020 - 05:23:00 EST


Hi Jean,

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 07/15] iommu/smmuv3: Allow stage 1 invalidation with
> unmanaged ASIDs
>
> Hi Shameer,
>
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 06:42:57PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
> > Hi Jean/zhangfei,
> > Is it possible to have a branch with minimum required SVA/UACCE related
> patches
> > that are already public and can be a "stable" candidate for future respin of
> Eric's series?
> > Please share your thoughts.
>
> By "stable" you mean a fixed branch with the latest SVA/UACCE patches
> based on mainline?

Yes.

The uacce-devel branches from
> https://github.com/Linaro/linux-kernel-uadk do provide this at the moment
> (they track the latest sva/zip-devel branch
> https://jpbrucker.net/git/linux/ which is roughly based on mainline.)

Thanks.

Hi Eric,

Could you please take a look at the above branches and see whether it make sense
to rebase on top of either of those?

>From vSVA point of view, it will be less rebase hassle if we can do that.

Thanks,
Shameer

> Thanks,
> Jean