Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] iommu: add IOMMU_PRIV attribute

From: Robin Murphy
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 10:08:19 EST


On 09/07/16 03:09, Mitchel Humpherys wrote:
> Add the IOMMU_PRIV attribute, which is used to indicate privileged
> mappings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/iommu.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
> index 664683aedcce..01c9f2667f2b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
> #define IOMMU_CACHE (1 << 2) /* DMA cache coherency */
> #define IOMMU_NOEXEC (1 << 3)
> #define IOMMU_MMIO (1 << 4) /* e.g. things like MSI doorbells */
> +#define IOMMU_PRIV (1 << 5)

I agree on the IOMMU_PRIV name, but can't help thinking it might be
worth a brief comment to make it abundantly clear at a glance that it
isn't "private" or "priority 5" or whatever ;)

Robin.

> struct iommu_ops;
> struct iommu_group;
>