[PATCH v5 05/27] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Split code with hyp

Mostafa Saleh smostafa at google.com
Fri Dec 12 07:41:33 PST 2025


On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 12:46:55PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 06:47:52PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> > The KVM SMMUv3 driver would re-use some of the cmdq code inside
> > the hypervisor, move these functions to a new common c file that
> > is shared between the host kernel and the hypervisor.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa at google.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/Makefile        |   2 +-
> >  .../arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-common-lib.c  | 114 +++++++++++++
> >  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c   | 161 ------------------
> >  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h   |  61 +++++++
> 
> I would think these inlines should go in some -common.h instead of
> arm-smmu-v3.h for better clarity, and ideally pkvm stuff does not
> include arm-smmu-v3.h at all?

My thought was that we use “arm-smmu-v3.h” to avoid moving a lot of
code and messing up the git history, but I have no strong opinion,
splitting is fine also.

Thanks,
Mostafa

> 
> Jason



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