Re: [PATCH v7 09/11] iommu/vt-d: Add bind guest PASID support

From: Jacob Pan
Date: Mon Oct 28 2019 - 11:58:10 EST


On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:03:36 +0000
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > > + .sva_bind_gpasid = intel_svm_bind_gpasid,
> > > > + .sva_unbind_gpasid = intel_svm_unbind_gpasid,
> > > > +#endif
> > >
> > > again, pure PASID management logic should be separated from SVM.
> > >
> > I am not following, these two functions are SVM functionality, not
> > pure PASID management which is already separated in ioasid.c
>
> I should say pure "scalable mode" logic. Above callbacks are not
> related to host SVM per se. They are serving gpasid requests from
> guest side, thus part of generic scalable mode capability.
Got your point, but we are sharing data structures with host SVM, it is
very difficult and inefficient to separate the two.