Re: [PATCH v6 08/12] iommu/sva: Use attach/detach_pasid_dev in SVA interfaces

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 07:49:01 EST


On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 01:17:08PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> On 2022/5/12 13:01, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 11:03 AM
> > >
> > > On 2022/5/11 22:53, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > > > Also, given the current arrangement it might make sense to have a
> > > > > > struct iommu_domain_sva given that no driver is wrappering this in
> > > > > > something else.
> > > > > Fair enough. How about below wrapper?
> > > > >
> > > > > +struct iommu_sva_domain {
> > > > > + /*
> > > > > + * Common iommu domain header,*must* be put at the top
> > > > > + * of the structure.
> > > > > + */
> > > > > + struct iommu_domain domain;
> > > > > + struct mm_struct *mm;
> > > > > + struct iommu_sva bond;
> > > > > +}
> > > > >
> > > > > The refcount is wrapped in bond.
> > > > I'm still not sure that bond is necessary
> > >
> > > "bond" is the sva handle that the device drivers get through calling
> > > iommu_sva_bind().
> > >
> >
> > 'bond' was required before because we didn't have a domain to wrap
> > the page table at that time.
> >
> > Now we have a domain and it is 1:1 associated to bond. Probably
> > make sense now by just returning the domain as the sva handle
> > instead?
>
> It also includes the device information that the domain has been
> attached. So the sva_unbind() looks like this:
>
> /**
> * iommu_sva_unbind_device() - Remove a bond created with
> iommu_sva_bind_device
> * @handle: the handle returned by iommu_sva_bind_device()
> *
> * Put reference to a bond between device and address space. The device
> should
> * not be issuing any more transaction for this PASID. All outstanding page
> * requests for this PASID must have been flushed to the IOMMU.
> */
> void iommu_sva_unbind_device(struct iommu_sva *handle)
>
> It's fine to replace the iommu_sva with iommu_sva_domain for sva handle,
> if we can include the device in the unbind() interface.

Why would we have a special unbind for SVA?

SVA should not different from normal domains it should use the normal
detach flow too.

Jason