[PATCH v2 09/10] vfio: Support IO page table replacement

[Nicolin Chen]

Remove the vdev->iommufd_attached check, since the kernel can internally
handle a replacement of the IO page table now.

Also update the VFIO_DEVICE_ATTACH_IOMMUFD_PT kdoc in the uAPI header.

Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/vfio/iommufd.c    | 3 ---
 include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/iommufd.c b/drivers/vfio/iommufd.c
index dc9feab73db7..8b719d9424b8 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/iommufd.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/iommufd.c
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ int vfio_iommufd_physical_attach_ioas(struct vfio_device *vdev, u32 *pt_id)
 	if (!vdev->iommufd_device)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (vdev->iommufd_attached)
-		return -EBUSY;
-
 	rc = iommufd_device_attach(vdev->iommufd_device, pt_id);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
index c86cfe442884..69f3ceb18d7d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
@@ -236,6 +236,12 @@ struct vfio_device_bind_iommufd {
  *
  * Undo by VFIO_DEVICE_DETACH_IOMMUFD_PT or device fd close.
  *
+ * If a vfio device is currently attached to a valid hw_pagetable, without doing
+ * a VFIO_DEVICE_DETACH_IOMMUFD_PT, a second VFIO_DEVICE_ATTACH_IOMMUFD_PT ioctl
+ * passing in another hw_pagetable (hwpt) id is allowed. This action, also known
+ * as a hw_pagetable replacement, will replace the device's currently attached
+ * hw_pagetable with a new hw_pagetable corresponding to the given pt_id.
+ *
  * @argsz:	user filled size of this data.
  * @flags:	must be 0.
  * @pt_id:	Input the target id which can represent an ioas or a hwpt
-- 
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