Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/amd: Use delayed mmu release notifier

From: Oded Gabbay
Date: Fri Nov 07 2014 - 15:22:27 EST




On 11/06/2014 03:33 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:43:27AM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
>> 3. Later, amdkfd's mmu notifier callback (kfd_process_notifier_release()) gets
>> called and releases more things that are related to the process.
>> In that function, amd_iommu_unbind_pasid() is explicitly called.
>
> Can't you just register a delayed funtion in
> kfd_process_notifier_release() and call amd_iommu_unbind_pasid() from
> there?
OK, I implemented that and I don't need to change the IOMMUv2 code anymore.
So, I think we can conclude this discussion at this point :)

Oded

I really hate to make that part of the IOMMUv2 driver API,
> especially since it is going to be turned into a generic IOMMU-API
> extension.
>
> And especially since all these hacks could be avoided if the KFD driver
> would just turn down everything on closing the file descriptor.
>
>
> Joerg
>
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