Re: [PATCH 1/7] genirq/msi: Add a new field in msi_desc to store an IOMMU cookie

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 06:24:04 EST


Hi Julien,

On 18/04/2019 18:26, Julien Grall wrote:
> When an MSI doorbell is located downstream of an IOMMU, it is required
> to swizzle the physical address with an appropriately-mapped IOVA for any
> device attached to one of our DMA ops domain.
>
> At the moment, the allocation of the mapping may be done when composing
> the message. However, the composing may be done in non-preemtible
> context while the allocation requires to be called from preemptible
> context.
>
> A follow-up patch will split the current logic in two functions
> requiring to keep an IOMMU cookie per MSI.
>
> This patch introduces a new field in msi_desc to store an IOMMU cookie
> when CONFIG_IOMMU_DMA is selected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/msi.h | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/msi.h b/include/linux/msi.h
> index 7e9b81c3b50d..d7907feef1bb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/msi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/msi.h
> @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ struct msi_desc {
> struct device *dev;
> struct msi_msg msg;
> struct irq_affinity_desc *affinity;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_DMA
> + const void *iommu_cookie;
> +#endif
>
> union {
> /* PCI MSI/X specific data */
>

Given that this is the only member in this structure that is dependent
on a config option, you could also add a couple of accessors that would
do nothing when IOMMU_DMA is not selected (and use that in the DMA code).

Thanks,

M.
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