Re: [PATCH 1/9] iommu/dma-iommu: Add iommu_map_atomic

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:47:30PM +0100, Tom Murphy via iommu wrote:
> The iommu ops .map function (or the iommu_map function which calls it)
> was always supposed to be sleepable (according to Joerg's comment in
> this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/977520/ ) and so
> should probably have had a "might_sleep()" since it was written. However
> currently the dma-iommu api can call iommu_map in an atomic context,
> which it shouldn't do. This doesn't cause any problems because any iommu
> driver which uses the dma-iommu api uses gfp_atomic in it's iommu_ops
> .map function. But doing this wastes the memory allocators atomic pools.
> 
> Add a new function iommu_map_atomic, use it in the dma-iommu api and add
> âmight_sleep()â to the iommu_map function.
> 
> After this change all drivers which use the dma-iommu api need to
> implement the new iommu ops .map_atomic function. For the moment just
> reuse the driver's iommus ops .map function for .map_atomic.

Instead of duplicating the callchain shouldn't we just pass down a flag
to indicate if the context can sleep or not?  Especially as all the
existing arm drivers already implement the atomic behavior, which is
a majority of struct iommu_ops based iommu drivers.