RE: [PATCH v10 1/6] iommu: Change kconfig around IOMMU_SVA

From: Zhang, Tina
Date: Fri Oct 27 2023 - 03:36:57 EST


Hi Joerg,

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> From: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> To: Zhang, Tina <tina.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/6] iommu: Change kconfig around IOMMU_SVA
>
> Hi Tina,
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 08:05:20AM +0800, Tina Zhang wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Linus suggested that the kconfig here is confusing:
>
> While this patch looks decent to me, you forgot to Cc Linus on it. In general,
> given that it touches a couple of core files, I'd like to wait for some more
> people to have a look at it and not rushing anything in.
Make sense. I'll CC Linus. Comments are welcome.

> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-
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> >
> > Let's break it into three kconfigs controlling distinct things:
> >
> > - CONFIG_IOMMU_MM_DATA controls if the mm_struct has the additional
> > fields for the IOMMU. Currently only PASID, but later patches store
> > a struct iommu_mm_data *
> >
> > - CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID controls if the arch needs the scheduling
> bit
> > for keeping track of the ENQCMD instruction. x86 will select this if
> > IOMMU_SVA is enabled
> >
> > - IOMMU_SVA controls if the IOMMU core compiles in the SVA support
> code
> > for iommu driver use and the IOMMU exported API
> >
> > This way ARM will not enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If you send it, you also need to add your Signed-off-by.
OK. I'll add my Signed-off-by.

Thanks,
-Tina

>
> Regards,
>
> Joerg