RE: [PATCH v4 05/17] iommufd: File descriptor, context, kconfig and makefiles

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> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 8:49 AM
> 
> This is the basic infrastructure of a new miscdevice to hold the iommufd
> IOCTL API.
> 
> It provides:
>  - A miscdevice to create file descriptors to run the IOCTL interface over
> 
>  - A table based ioctl dispatch and centralized extendable pre-validation
>    step
> 
>  - An xarray mapping userspace ID's to kernel objects. The design has
>    multiple inter-related objects held within in a single IOMMUFD fd
> 
>  - A simple usage count to build a graph of object relations and protect
>    against hostile userspace racing ioctls
> 
> The only IOCTL provided in this patch is the generic 'destroy any object
> by handle' operation.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>




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