Re: [PATCH v9 11/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add the kernel driver

[Nicolin Chen]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 08:08:42PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> +static struct platform_driver smmuv3_nesting_driver;
> +static int __init smmuv3_nesting_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

Could it use a different naming than "nesting"?

"Nesting" is widely used in iommufd path for nested translation.

Here, it could be smmuv3_pkvm_driver?

> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_SMMU_V3_PKVM
> +/*
> + * Two devices are involved: the aux device bound to this driver, and the
> + * physical platform device bound to the pKVM init driver, which only uses it
> + * for discovery. This driver keeps using the platform device, as it carries
> + * the fwnode the IOMMU core and consumers link to, the DMA configuration and
> + * the IRQs.

It would be nicer to have a diagram or so to show the co-relationship
among different devices and drivers.

I assume the regular arm-smmu-v3 driver is a part of the picture too,
when the pkvm driver binding fails?

> +static struct auxiliary_driver arm_smmu_driver_emu = {
> +	.driver = {
> +		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
> +	},
> +	.name = "arm-smmu-v3-emu",
> +	.id_table = arm_smmu_aux_table,
> +	.probe = arm_smmu_device_probe_emu,
> +	.remove = arm_smmu_device_remove_emu,
> +	.shutdown = arm_smmu_device_shutdown_emu,
> +};
> +
> +module_auxiliary_driver(arm_smmu_driver_emu);
> +#endif

Nit:
#endif /* CONFIG_ARM_SMMU_V3_PKVM */

Nicolin