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Message-Id: <1418613792-sup-5165@delenn.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:32:18 +1100
From:	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	mpe <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	benh <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, mikey <mikey@...ling.org>,
	anton <anton@...ba.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>, jk <jk@...abs.org>,
	cbe-oss-dev <cbe-oss-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Philippe Bergheaud <philippe.bergheaud@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] CXL: Unmap MMIO regions when detaching a context

Excerpts from Ian Munsie's message of 2014-12-08 19:18:01 +1100:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
> 
> If we need to force detach a context (e.g. due to EEH or simply force
> unbinding the driver) we should prevent the userspace contexts from
> being able to access the Problem State Area MMIO region further, which
> they may have mapped with mmap().
> 
> This patch unmaps any mapped MMIO regions when detaching a userspace
> context.

Might want to drop this one for now - Philippe found that it sometimes
causes an issue when multiple contexts are using the afu. Seems that
unmap_mapping_range() unmapped a bit more than I expected.

Cheers,
-Ian

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