linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/13] driver core: Add iommu

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Message-ID: <20120511233821.GA9335@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 16:38:21 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, aik@...abs.ru,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] driver core: Add iommu_group tracking to struct
 device

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:55:35PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> IOMMU groups allow IOMMU drivers to represent DMA visibility
> and isolation of devices.  Multiple devices may be grouped
> together for the purposes of DMA.  Placing a pointer on
> struct device enable easy access for things like streaming
> DMA programming and drivers like VFIO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>

Can't you get this today from the iommu_ops pointer that is on the bus
that the device is associated with?  Or can devices on a bus have
different iommu_group pointers?

thanks,

greg k-h
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