Re: [PATCH v7 08/11] vfio: Remove use of vfio_group_viable()

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:50:53 +0800
Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As DMA ownership is claimed for the iommu group when a VFIO group is
> added to a VFIO container, the VFIO group viability is guaranteed as long
> as group->container_users > 0. Remove those unnecessary group viability
> checks which are only hit when group->container_users is not zero.
> 
> The only remaining reference is in GROUP_GET_STATUS, which could be called
> at any time when group fd is valid. Here we just replace the
> vfio_group_viable() by directly calling IOMMU core to get viability status.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio.c | 18 ++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>




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