linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/s390: Add support for iommu

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:27:16 +0200
From:   Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/s390: Add support for iommu_device handling

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:28:06 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 05:02:19PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:11:52 +0200
> > Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> wrote:
> > > +	rc = zpci_init_iommu(zdev);
> > > +	if (rc)
> > > +		goto out_free;
> > > +
> > 
> > After this point, there are two options for failure (zpci_enable_device +
> > zpci_scan_bus), but missing error handling with an appropriate call to
> > zpci_destroy_iommu().
> 
> Right, I'll fix that in the next version.
> 
> > I must admit that I do not understand what these sysfs attributes are
> > used for, and by whom and when. Is it really necessary/correct to register
> > them (including the s390_iommu_ops) _before_ the zpci_dev is registered
> > to the bus (zpci_scan_bus -> pci_scan_root_bus/pci_bus_add_devices)?
> > 
> > What is the expected life cycle for the attributes, and are they already
> > needed when a device is still under DMA API access, or even before it is
> > added to the PCI bus?
> 
> The sysfs attributes are used by user-space for topology detection. A
> user-space program using VFIO needs to know which PCI-devices it needs
> to assign to the VFIO driver in order to gain access.
> 
> On s390 this probably doesn't matter much, as the real PCI topology is
> not exposed, but it matters on other architectures. The purpose of this
> patch is not so much the sysfs attributes. Its a step to convert all
> IOMMU drivers to use the iommu_device_register() interface. Goal is that
> the iommu core code knows about individual hardware iommus and the
> devices behind it.
> 
> When this is implemented in all iommu drivers, we can start moving more
> code out of the drivers into the iommu core. This also probably doesn't
> matter much for s390, but all iommu drivers need to use this interface
> before we can move on. The sysfs-stuff is just a by-product of that.
> 
> So to move on with that, it would be good to get an Acked-by on this
> patch from you guys once you think I fixed everything :)

Ok, thanks for the explanation. So it should not be a problem if the
attributes are registered in zpci_create_device() before the device is
registered to the bus, especially since they do not provide any manipulation
function but only topology information.

BTW, I get the following new attributes with this patch:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/iommu
/sys/devices/virtual/iommu
/sys/devices/virtual/iommu/s390-iommu.00000012
/sys/class/iommu/s390-iommu.00000012

Regards,
Gerald