Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] iommufd: Add data structure for Intel VT-d stage-1 cache invalidation

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Jan 02 2024 - 18:39:05 EST


On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:01:19PM +0800, Yi Liu wrote:
> > I think I misread Yi's narrative: dev_id is a working approach
> > for VMM to convert to a vRID, while he is asking for a better
> > alternative :)
>
> In concept, dev_id works, but in reality we have problem to get a dev_id
> for a given device in intel iommu driver, hence I'm asking for help here. :)

I think we just need to solve this one way or another.. Even if you
use a viommu object you still end up having difficult coupling to
iommufd

Some:
iommufd_get_dev_id(struct iommufd_ctx *ictx, struct device *dev)

Callable by a driver (using the driver-callable function
infrastructure we made for dirty tracking) Is really all that is
needed here.

Jason