Re: [PATCH v1 14/14] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add arm_smmu_cache_invalidate_user

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 05:53:46PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:

> I guess it depends on whether IOMMUFD is aware of the vSID->device
> relationships that the VMM is using. If so, then it should be OK for the VMM
> to pass through the vSID directly, and we can translate and sanity-check it
> internally. Otherwise, the interface might have to require the VMM to
> translate vSID->RID and pass the corresponding host RID, which we can then
> map back to a SID (userspace cannot do the full vSID->SID by itself, and
> even if it could that would probably be more awkward to validate).

The thing we have in iommufd is the "idevid" ie the handle for
the 'struct device' which is also the handle for the phyiscal SID in
the iommu..

The trouble is that there is not such an easy way for the iommu driver
to translate an idevid at this point since it would have to call out
from a built-in kernel driver to the iommufd module :( :( We have to
eventually solve that but I was hoping it wouldn't have to be on the
fast path...

So, having a vSID xarray in the driver that holds the struct device *
is possibly a good thing. Especially if the vCMDQ scheme needs the
same information.

Jason