Re: [Patch Part2 V2 15/17] iommu/vt-d, PCI: update DRHD/RMRR/ATSR device scope caches when PCI hotplug happens

[Jiang Liu]

Hi David,
	Good suggestion! It should make hotplug logic simpler too.
Will try to work out some patches for it.
Thanks!
Gerry

On 2014/3/7 2:25, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 14:07 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> Current Intel DMAR/IOMMU driver assumes that all PCI devices
>> associated
>> with DMAR/RMRR/ATSR device scope arrays are created at boot time and
>> won't change at runtime, so it caches pointers of associated PCI
>> device
>> object. That assumption may be wrong now due to:
>> 1) introduction of PCI host bridge hotplug
>> 2) PCI device hotplug through sysfs interfaces.
> ...
>> This patch introduces a new mechanism to update the DRHD/RMRR/ATSR
>> device scope caches by hooking PCI bus notification.
> 
> Hm, this seems overly complex. Can't we just abandon the
> dmaru->devices[] array completely? In dmar_find_matched_drhd_unit()
> can't we just compare the path in the scope entries directly to the PCI
> device we are trying to find a DRHD for?
> 
> We then cache the result in dev->archdata.iommu for ever (well, until
> hot-unplug) anyway, so it shouldn't even be any less efficient to do it
> on demand, right?
> 
> That's true at least for dmar_find_matched_drhd_unit(). Perhaps we'd
> need to find a way to cache the result for
> dmar_find_matched_atsr_unit()?
> 
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