Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] iommu/amd: Use iommu_attach/detach_device()

[Joerg Roedel]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:02:36AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> That works for VFIO, but it doesn't work for other in-kernel
> drivers.. Is there something ensuring the group is only the GPU and
> sound device? Is the GPU never an addin card?

GPUs supporting this functionality are always iGPUs, AFAIK.

> I'd say the right way to code this after Lu's series to have both the
> GPU and sound driver call iommu_attach_device() during their probe()'s
> and specify the identity domain as the attaching domain.
> 
> That would be quite similar to how the Tegra drivers got arranged.
> 
> And then maybe someone could better guess what the "sound driver" is
> since it would be marked with an iommu_attach_device() call.

Device drivers calling into iommu_attach_device() is seldom a good
idea.  In this case the sound device has some generic hardware
interface so that an existing sound driver can be re-used. Making this
driver call iommu-specific functions for some devices is something hard
to justify.

With sub-groups on the other hand it would be a no-brainer, because the
sound device would be in a separate sub-group. Basically any device in
the same group as the GPU would be in a separate sub-group.

Regards,

	Joerg