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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/9] iommu: Introduce domain attachment handle
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On 4/8/24 10:05 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 12:34:14PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
>> On 4/3/24 7:58 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 09:15:11AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>>>> Currently, when attaching a domain to a device or its PASID, domain is
>>>> stored within the iommu group. It could be retrieved for use during the
>>>> window between attachment and detachment.
>>>>
>>>> With new features introduced, there's a need to store more information
>>>> than just a domain pointer. This information essentially represents the
>>>> association between a domain and a device. For example, the SVA code
>>>> already has a custom struct iommu_sva which represents a bond between
>>>> sva domain and a PASID of a device. Looking forward, the IOMMUFD needs
>>>> a place to store the iommufd_device pointer in the core, so that the
>>>> device object ID could be quickly retrieved in the critical fault handling
>>>> path.
>>>>
>>>> Introduce domain attachment handle that explicitly represents the
>>>> attachment relationship between a domain and a device or its PASID.
>>>> A caller-specific data field can be used by the caller to store additional
>>>> information beyond a domain pointer, depending on its specific use case.
>>>>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Jason Gunthorpe<jgg@nvidia.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe<jgg@nvidia.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu<baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h | 9 +++
>>>> drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>> 2 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h b/drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h
>>>> index 5f731d994803..08c0667cef54 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h
>>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h
>>>> @@ -28,4 +28,13 @@ void iommu_device_unregister_bus(struct iommu_device *iommu,
>>>> const struct bus_type *bus,
>>>> struct notifier_block *nb);
>>>> +struct iommu_attach_handle {
>>>> + struct iommu_domain *domain;
>>>> + refcount_t users;
>>> I don't understand how the refcounting can be generally useful. There
>>> is no way to free this:
>>>
>>>> + void *priv;
>>> When the refcount goes to zero.
>> This field is set by the caller, so the caller ensures that the pointer
>> can only be freed after iommu domain detachment. For iopf, the caller
>> should automatically respond to all outstanding iopf's in the domain
>> detach path.
>>
>> In the sva case, which uses the workqueue to handle iopf,
>> flush_workqueue() is called in the domain detach path to ensure that all
>> outstanding iopf's are completed before detach completion.
> Which is back to what is the point of the refcount at all?

Yeah, refcount is not generally useful. It's context-specific, so it
needs to move out of the core.

The SVA code needs refcount because it allows multiple attachments
between a SVA domain and a PASID. This is not a common case.

>
>> +static void iommufd_auto_response_handle(struct iommufd_fault *fault,
>> + struct iommu_attach_handle *handle)
>> +{
>> + struct iommufd_device *idev = handle->priv;
> The caller already has the iommufd_device, don't need the handler.

Yes.

Best regards,
baolu

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