[PATCH v6 1/5] iommu: Return -EMEDIUMTYPE for incompatible domain and device/group
Nicolin Chen
nicolinc at nvidia.com
Sat Sep 10 16:35:48 PDT 2022
On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:08:38AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:30:57AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > There are also cases where common kAPIs are called in the attach
> > path which may return -EINVAL and random errno, e.g.:
> >
> > omap_iommu_attach_dev()
> > omap_iommu_attach()
> > iommu_enable()
> > pm_runtime_get_sync()
> > __pm_runtime_resume()
> > rpm_resume()
> > if (dev->power.runtime_error) {
> > retval = -EINVAL;
> Yes, this is was also on my mind with choosing an unpopular return
> code, it has a higher chance of not coming out of some other kernel
> API
I wonder if it would be safe to just treat a pm_runtime_get_sync()
failure as -ENODEV, since a PM resume() mostly occurs to the IOMMU
that an IOMMU client/master device is behind, while an iommu_domain
rarely intervenes.
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