[PATCH v10 12/13] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Implement iommu_sva_bind/unbind()

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> > I'm strongly
> > trying to discourage static lists matching mm's like smmu_mn is
> > doing. This is handled by the core code, don't open code it..
> 
> We discussed this at v6, which wonkily stored the mn ops in the domain to
> obtain a unique notifier per {mm, domain}. A clean solution requires
> changing mm_notifier_get() to use an opaque token. Rather than testing
> {mm, ops} uniqueness it would compare {mm, ops, token}. I figured it
> wasn't worth the effort for a single driver, especially since the SMMU
> driver would still have one list matching because it needs to deal with
> both {mm, domain} and {mm, device} uniqueness.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20200501121552.GA6012@infradead.org/

Oh, that was a long time ago.. OK

Thanks,
Jason