RE: [PATCH v10 08/12] iommu/sva: Refactoring iommu_sva_bind/unbind_device()

From: Tian, Kevin
Date: Mon Jul 25 2022 - 03:51:03 EST


> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2022 9:48 PM
> >
> > The API is really refcounting the PASID:
> >
> >> +struct iommu_sva *iommu_sva_bind_device(struct device *dev,
> >> + struct mm_struct *mm);
> >> +void iommu_sva_unbind_device(struct iommu_sva *handle);
> >
> > So what you need to do is store that 'iommu_sva' in the group's PASID
> > xarray.
> >
> > The bind logic would be
> >
> > sva = xa_load(group->pasid, mm->pasid)
> > if (sva)
> > refcount_inc(sva->users)
> > return sva
> > sva = kalloc
> > sva->domain = domain
> > xa_store(group->pasid, sva);
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. It makes a lot of sense to me.
>
> Furthermore, I'd like to separate the generic data from the caller-
> specific things because the group->pasid_array should also be able to
> serve other usages. Hence, the attach/detach_device_pasid interfaces
> might be changed like below:
>
> /* Collection of per-pasid IOMMU data */
> struct group_pasid {
> struct iommu_domain *domain;
> void *priv;
> };
>

Is there any reason why pasid refcnt is sva specific and needs to be
in a priv field?