[PATCH v3 02/16] iommufd/viommu: Add a default_viommu_ops for IOMMU_VIOMMU_TYPE_DEFAULT
Nicolin Chen
nicolinc at nvidia.com
Thu Oct 17 11:50:44 PDT 2024
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 03:47:29PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 09:38:14AM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > An IOMMU_VIOMMU_TYPE_DEFAULT doesn't need a free() op since the core can
> > free everything in the destroy(). Now with the new vDEVICE structure, it
> > might want to allocate its own vDEVICEs.
> >
> > Add a default_viommu_ops for driver to hook ops for default vIOMMUs.
>
> Why? arm_smmu is now creating its own viommu object, so who will use
> this?
>
> Do we have any use for the default mode? It is already a bit
> confusing, can we just drop it?
Hmm, that would make the default model completely useless..
Should we unsupport a default viommu allocation?
Nicolin
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