Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Allocate IOTLB cache tag if no id to reuse

From: Jason Gunthorpe

Date: Mon Jan 26 2026 - 16:07:18 EST


On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 05:24:22PM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> @@ -3220,6 +3241,9 @@ arm_smmu_master_build_inv(struct arm_smmu_master *master,
> break;
> }
>
> + /* Set a default users counter */
> + refcount_set(&cur->users, 1);

I think abusing users here is a little too hard to read..

Can we just keep track in the state somehow with a flag?

Or maybe union in a "bool needs_free" that is for the on-stack version
of this structure?

Jason