Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] iommu/sva: Stop using ioasid_set for SVA

[Jacob Pan]

Hi Jason,

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:15:45 -0400, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:57:41PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> > On 2023/3/3 17:32, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:  
> > > > I suppose the common thing is reserving some kind of special
> > > > PASIDs.  
> > > Are you planning to use RID_PASID != 0 in VT-d?  Otherwise we could
> > > just communicate min_pasid from the IOMMU driver the same way we do
> > > max_pasid.
> > > 
> > > Otherwise I guess re-introduce a lighter ioasid_alloc() that the IOMMU
> > > driver calls to reserve PASID0/RID_PASID.  
> > 
> > Yes. We probably will use a non-zero RID_PASID in the future. An
> > interface to reserve (or allocate) a PASID from iommu_global_pasid_ida
> > should work then.  
> 
> Just allowing the driver to store XA_ZERO_ENTRY would be fine
> 
It looks like there are incoming users of iommu_sva_find()
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230306163138.587484-1-fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx/T/#m1fc97725a0e56ea269c8bdabacee447070d51846
Should we keep the xa here instead of the global ida?

 
Thanks,

Jacob