Re: [PATCH v5 11/23] driver core: add per device iommu param

From: Lu Baolu
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 01:27:29 EST


Hi,

On 05/12/2018 04:54 AM, Jacob Pan wrote:
> DMA faults can be detected by IOMMU at device level. Adding a pointer
> to struct device allows IOMMU subsystem to report relevant faults
> back to the device driver for further handling.
> For direct assigned device (or user space drivers), guest OS holds
> responsibility to handle and respond per device IOMMU fault.
> Therefore we need fault reporting mechanism to propagate faults beyond
> IOMMU subsystem.
>
> There are two other IOMMU data pointers under struct device today, here
> we introduce iommu_param as a parent pointer such that all device IOMMU
> data can be consolidated here. The idea was suggested here by Greg KH
> and Joerg. The name iommu_param is chosen here since iommu_data has been used.

This doesn't match what you've done in the patch. Maybe you
forgot to cleanup? :-)

The idea is to create a parent pointer under device struct and
move previous iommu_group and iommu_fwspec together with
the iommu fault related data into it.

Best regards,
Lu Baolu

>
> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/6/81
> ---
> include/linux/device.h | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index 4779569..c1b1796 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct iommu_ops;
> struct iommu_group;
> struct iommu_fwspec;
> struct dev_pin_info;
> +struct iommu_param;
>
> struct bus_attribute {
> struct attribute attr;
> @@ -899,6 +900,7 @@ struct dev_links_info {
> * device (i.e. the bus driver that discovered the device).
> * @iommu_group: IOMMU group the device belongs to.
> * @iommu_fwspec: IOMMU-specific properties supplied by firmware.
> + * @iommu_param: Per device generic IOMMU runtime data
> *
> * @offline_disabled: If set, the device is permanently online.
> * @offline: Set after successful invocation of bus type's .offline().
> @@ -988,6 +990,7 @@ struct device {
> void (*release)(struct device *dev);
> struct iommu_group *iommu_group;
> struct iommu_fwspec *iommu_fwspec;
> + struct iommu_param *iommu_param;
>
> bool offline_disabled:1;
> bool offline:1;