Re: [PATCH 02/14] iommu: Implement IOMMU core liveupdate skeleton

From: Pranjal Shrivastava

Date: Wed Mar 18 2026 - 14:53:00 EST


On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 02:03:16PM -0700, Vipin Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 08:23:38PM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 08:13:47PM +0000, Samiullah Khawaja wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 08:09:26PM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 06:42:05PM +0000, Samiullah Khawaja wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 11:10:36PM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 10:09:36PM +0000, Samiullah Khawaja wrote:
> > > > > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iommu_get_preserved_data);
> > > > > > > +
> > > >
> > > > Also, I don't see these helpers being used anywhere in this series yet?
> > > > Should we add them with the phase-2 series? When we actually "Restore"
> > > > the domain?
> > >
> > > Phase 1 does restore the iommu and domains during boot. But the
> > > iommufd/hwpt state is not restored or re-associated with the restored
> > > domains.
> > >
> > > These helpers are used to fetch the preserved state during boot.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sami
> >
> > I see these are used in PATCH 8, should we introduce these helpers in
> > PATCH 8 where we actually use them? As we introduce iommu_restore_domain
> > in PATCH 8?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Praan
> >
>
> Please trim your responses.

Ack, sorry for missing that in this thread.

Thanks,
Praan