On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 04:39:37PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 11:51:31AM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 02:36:49PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 12:59:58PM -0500, Matthew Rosato wrote:
> > > > really should highlight that). Otherwise, conditionally calling
> > > > iommu_domain_alloc(dev->bus) when !ops->domain_alloc_user (instead
> > > > of returning -EOPNOTSUPP) seems to restore the prior functionality
> > > > for me.
> > >
> > > Yes, that is right if the input user data is 0 length or full of 0s
> > > then we should call the normal driver function
> >
> > Maybe I am wrong, yet I recall that doing ops->domain_alloc_user
> > without a fallback was intentional to rule out drivers that don't
> > support IOMMUFD?
>
> I think we moved away from that to the idea of using the dma_domain
> patch I suggested..
>
> > To be backward-compatible and concern about SMMU, we can opt in
> > ops->domain_alloc_user upon availability and then add a fallback:
> >
> > if ((!ops || !ops->domain_alloc_user) && user_data) {
> > rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > goto out_abort;
> > }
> >
> > if (ops->domain_alloc_user)
> > hwpt->domain = ops->domain_alloc_user(dev, NULL, NULL);
> > else
> > hwpt->domain = iommu_domain_alloc(dev->bus);
> > if (!hwpt->domain) {
> > rc = -ENOMEM;
> > goto out_abort;
> > }
> >
> > Yet, even by doing so, this series having the PATCH 07/17 that
> > moves iopt_table_add_domain() would temporally break IOMMUFD on
> > ARM platforms, until we add the ops->domain_alloc_user to SMMU
> > drivers.
>
> Drop patch 7 and 8
>
> Change patch 12 so it has a unique flow to allocate and IOAS map a
> HWPT that does not try to share so much code with the existing flow.
>
> The HWPT flow should always just call allocate and then map with no
> effort to attach first. This will fail on ARM SMMU at this point, and
> that is fine.
>
> All the existing code should work exactly as it is now and not have
> any need to be changed.
>
> Where things when wrong was trying to share
> "__iommufd_hw_pagetable_alloc", I think.
>
> Don't try to consolidate at this point. Once all the drivers are
> updated then we could try to consolidate things.
Yea, I think that's the only way out for now. Though I am not
sure about other drivers yet, hopefully the SMMU driver(s) is
the last one that we need to update...
Thanks
Nic
