RE: [PATCH v11 14/16] iommu: Track iopf group instead of last fault

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> From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 4:09 PM
> 
> Previously, before a group of page faults was passed to the domain's iopf
> handler, the last page fault of the group was kept in the list of
> iommu_fault_param::faults. In the page fault response path, the group's
> last page fault was used to look up the list, and the page faults were
> responded to device only if there was a matched fault.
> 
> The previous approach seems unnecessarily complex and not performance
> friendly. Put the page fault group itself to the outstanding fault list.
> It can be removed in the page fault response path or in the
> iopf_queue_remove_device() path. The pending list is protected by
> iommu_fault_param::lock. To allow checking for the group's presence in
> the list using list_empty(), the iopf group should be removed from the
> list with list_del_init().
> 
> IOMMU_PAGE_RESP_PASID_VALID is set in the code but not used anywhere.
> Remove it to make the code clean. IOMMU_PAGE_RESP_PASID_VALID is set
> in the response message indicating that the response message includes
> a valid PASID value. Actually, we should keep this hardware detail in
> the individual driver. When the page fault handling framework in IOMMU
> and IOMMUFD subsystems includes a valid PASID in the fault message, the
> response message should always contain the same PASID value. Individual
> drivers should be responsible for deciding whether to include the PASID
> in the messages they provide for the hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>

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





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