RE: [PATCH 9/9] iommu: Use fault cookie to store iopf_param

From: Tian, Kevin
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 02:27:04 EST


> From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 9:07 AM
>
> Remove the static iopf_param pointer from struct iommu_fault_param to
> save memory.

why is there memory saving? you replace a single pointer with a xarray now...

> @@ -303,16 +303,27 @@ int iopf_queue_add_device(struct iopf_queue
> *queue, struct device *dev)
>
> mutex_lock(&queue->lock);
> mutex_lock(&param->lock);
> - if (!param->iopf_param) {
> - list_add(&iopf_param->queue_list, &queue->devices);
> - param->iopf_param = iopf_param;
> - ret = 0;
> + curr = iommu_set_device_fault_cookie(dev, 0, iopf_param);
> + if (IS_ERR(curr)) {
> + ret = PTR_ERR(curr);
> + goto err_free;
> }

So although the new xarray is called a per-pasid storage, here only
slot#0 is used for sva which includes a list containing partial req's
for many pasid's. It doesn't sound clean...