[PATCH 1/5] iommu/arm-smmu: Restrict domain attributes to UNMANAGED domains

Joerg Roedel joro at 8bytes.org
Thu Jan 26 09:03:30 PST 2017


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:19:11PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> The ARM SMMU drivers provide a DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING domain attribute,
> which allows callers of the IOMMU API to request that the page table
> for a domain is installed at stage-2, if supported by the hardware.
> 
> Since setting this attribute only makes sense for UNMANAGED domains,
> this patch returns -ENODEV if the domain_{get,set}_attr operations are
> called on other domain types.

Isn't -EINVAL more suitable here? In the end the domain passed in is
invalid because it does not support attributes, no?



	Joerg




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