[PATCH 3/6] vfio: remove the unused mdev iommu hook

Tian, Kevin kevin.tian at intel.com
Thu Jul 22 22:36:17 PDT 2021


> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 9:35 PM
> 
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:08:19AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > The iommu layer should maintain above attaching status per device and
> per
> > iommu domain. There is no mdev/subdev concept in the iommu layer. It's
> > just about RID or PASID.
> 
> Yes, I think that makes sense.
> 
> > And a new set of IOMMU-API:
> >
> >     - iommu_{un}bind_pgtable(domain, dev, addr);
> >     - iommu_{un}bind_pgtable_pasid(domain, dev, addr, pasid);
> >     - iommu_cache_invalidate(domain, dev, invalid_info);
> 
> What caches is this supposed to "invalidate"?

pasid cache, iotlb or dev_iotlb entries that are related to the bound 
pgtable. the actual affected cache type and granularity (device-wide,
pasid-wide, selected addr-range) are specified by the caller.

Thanks
Kevin



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