linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH kernel v11 16/34] powerpc/spapr: vfio: Replace iommu_table with iommu_table

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Date:	Mon, 1 Jun 2015 15:11:29 +1000
From:	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v11 16/34] powerpc/spapr: vfio: Replace
 iommu_table with iommu_table_group

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:44:40PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Modern IBM POWERPC systems support multiple (currently two) TCE tables
> per IOMMU group (a.k.a. PE). This adds a iommu_table_group container
> for TCE tables. Right now just one table is supported.
> 
> This defines iommu_table_group struct which stores pointers to
> iommu_group and iommu_table(s). This replaces iommu_table with
> iommu_table_group where iommu_table was used to identify a group:
> - iommu_register_group();
> - iommudata of generic iommu_group;
> 
> This removes @data from iommu_table as it_table_group provides
> same access to pnv_ioda_pe.
> 
> For IODA, instead of embedding iommu_table, the new iommu_table_group
> keeps pointers to those. The iommu_table structs are allocated
> dynamically.
> 
> For P5IOC2, both iommu_table_group and iommu_table are embedded into
> PE struct. As there is no EEH and SRIOV support for P5IOC2,
> iommu_free_table() should not be called on iommu_table struct pointers
> so we can keep it embedded in pnv_phb::p5ioc2.
> 
> For pSeries, this replaces multiple calls of kzalloc_node() with a new
> iommu_pseries_alloc_group() helper and stores the table group struct
> pointer into the pci_dn struct. For release, a iommu_table_free_group()
> helper is added.
> 
> This moves iommu_table struct allocation from SR-IOV code to
> the generic DMA initialization code in pnv_pci_ioda_setup_dma_pe and
> pnv_pci_ioda2_setup_dma_pe as this is where DMA is actually initialized.
> This change is here because those lines had to be changed anyway.
> 
> This should cause no behavioural change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
> [aw: for the vfio related changes]
> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>

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