Re: [PATCH 07/10] iommu/ioasid: Use mutex instead of spinlock

[Jean-Philippe Brucker]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:55:28AM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Each IOASID or set could have multiple users with its own HW context
> to maintain. Often times access to the HW context requires thread context.
> For example, consumers of IOASIDs can register notification blocks to
> sync up its states. Having an atomic notifier is not feasible for these
> update operations.
> 
> This patch converts allocator lock from spinlock to mutex in preparation
> for IOASID notifier.

Unfortunately this doesn't work for SVA, which needs to call ioasid_free()
from the RCU callback of mmu_notifier_put(), which cannot sleep. We're
relying on MMU notifers this way to ensure that there is a single IOASID
per mm.

Thanks,
Jean