On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 02:53:27PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > The IOMMU SVA API currently requires device drivers to implement an > mm_exit() callback, which stops device jobs that do DMA. This function > is called in the release() MMU notifier, when an address space that is > shared with a device exits. > > It has been noted several time during discussions about SVA that > cancelling DMA jobs can be slow and complex, and doing it in the > release() notifier might cause synchronization issues. Device drivers > must in any case call unbind() to remove their bond, after stopping DMA > from a more favorable context (release of a file descriptor). > > Patch 1 removes the mm_exit() callback from the uacce module, and patch > 2 removes it from the IOMMU API. Since v1 [1] I fixed the uacce unbind > reported by Zhangfei and added details in the commit message of patch 2. > > Jean-Philippe Brucker (2): > uacce: Remove mm_exit() op > iommu: Remove iommu_sva_ops::mm_exit() Applied, thanks.
