Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] iommu: Add cache_invalidate_user op

From: Yi Liu
Date: Mon Dec 25 2023 - 21:21:58 EST


On 2023/12/22 10:30, Tian, Kevin wrote:
From: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 11:40 PM

From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The updates of the PTEs in the nested page table will be propagated to the
hardware caches on both IOMMU (IOTLB) and devices (DevTLB/ATC).

this is incorrect. the scope of this cmd is driver specific.

yes. May just say the hardware caches.



Add a new domain op cache_invalidate_user for the userspace to flush the
hardware caches for a nested domain through iommufd. No wrapper for it,
as it's only supposed to be used by iommufd. Then, pass in invalidation
requests in form of a user data array conatining a number of invalidation
data entries.

Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/iommu.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
index 6291aa7b079b..5c4a17f13761 100644
--- a/include/linux/iommu.h
+++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
@@ -284,6 +284,24 @@ struct iommu_user_data {
size_t len;
};

+/**
+ * struct iommu_user_data_array - iommu driver specific user space data
array
+ * @type: The data type of all the entries in the user buffer array
+ * @uptr: Pointer to the user buffer array for copy_from_user()

remove 'for copy_from_user();

+ * @entry_len: The fixed-width length of a entry in the array, in bytes

s/a/an/

+ * @entry_num: The number of total entries in the array
+ *
+ * A array having a @entry_num number of @entry_len sized entries, each

the first sentence is redundant.

entry is
+ * user space data, an uAPI defined in include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h where
@type
+ * is also defined as enum iommu_xyz_data_type.

I'd just say:

"The user buffer includes an array of requests with format defined
in include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h"

sure.

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Regards,
Yi Liu