[GIT PULL] iommu: Kill off pgsize_bitmap field from struct iommu_ops

Joerg Roedel joro at 8bytes.org
Tue Mar 31 07:24:40 PDT 2015


Hi Will,

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 05:19:46PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Please can you pull the following IOMMU changes for 4.1? They move the
> per-iommu_ops pgsize_bitmap field into the iommu_domain, which allows
> IOMMUs such as the ARM SMMU to support different page sizes within a
> given SoC.

I have some concerns about the direction taken with this patch-set. The
goal for the IOMMU-API is still to have domains that can be attached to
arbitrary devices (even when mappings already exist). But with this
patch-set we move into a direction where a domain can only be used on
IOMMUs that support the page-sizes required by the domain. In the end
this would be visible to the user of the IOMMU-API, which is not what we
want.

I can understand the motivation behind these patches, but we need to
think about how this could work with the desired semantics of the
IOMMU-API.


	Joerg




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