Re: [PATCH v4 05/18] iommufd: Add a flag to enforce dirty tracking on attach

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On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 09:27:02PM +0100, Joao Martins wrote:
> Throughout IOMMU domain lifetime that wants to use dirty tracking, some
> guarantees are needed such that any device attached to the iommu_domain
> supports dirty tracking.
> 
> The idea is to handle a case where IOMMU in the system are assymetric
> feature-wise and thus the capability may not be supported for all devices.
> The enforcement is done by adding a flag into HWPT_ALLOC namely:
> 
> 	IOMMUFD_HWPT_ALLOC_ENFORCE_DIRTY
> 
> .. Passed in HWPT_ALLOC ioctl() flags. The enforcement is done by creating
> a iommu_domain via domain_alloc_user() and validating the requested flags
> with what the device IOMMU supports (and failing accordingly) advertised).
> Advertising the new IOMMU domain feature flag requires that the individual
> iommu driver capability is supported when a future device attachment
> happens.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20220721142421.GB4609@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c | 4 +++-
>  include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h         | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jason



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