Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] iommufd: Pass parent hwpt and user_data to iommufd_hw_pagetable_alloc()

From: Nicolin Chen
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 15:14:25 EST


On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:34:38AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> > From: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:39 PM
> > @@ -89,9 +101,15 @@ iommufd_hw_pagetable_alloc(struct iommufd_ctx
> > *ictx, struct iommufd_ioas *ioas,
> > /* Pairs with iommufd_hw_pagetable_destroy() */
> > refcount_inc(&ioas->obj.users);
> > hwpt->ioas = ioas;
>
> presumably a user hwpt doesn't need store ioas?

hwpt->ioas has the refcount and mutex that are used by a user
hwpt too throughout the hwpt functions.

Thanks
Nic