linux-kernel - Re: per-device dma_map

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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:57:49 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: per-device dma_map_ops for intel-iommu?

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 05:03:52PM +0300, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 15:59 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi David and Joerg,
> > 
> > do you remember a good reason why intel-iommu is not using per-device
> > dma_map_ops like the AMD iommu or the various ARM iommus?
> > 
> > Right now intel-iommu.c contains a half-asses reimplementation of the
> > dma direct code for the iommu_no_mapping() case, and it would seem
> > much nicer to just fall back to that case and not even call into
> > intel-iommu in that case.
> 
> Other than the complexities about passthrough mode and various "oh shit
> we forgot to actually test that iommu+gfx actually works before
> shipping hardware" type of quirks that bypass the IOMMU for certain
> devices — and retpolines, which I think you already dealt with — no, no
> good reason that I recall.

Same here, I looked into this in the past as well, but I can't recall
any reason this was left in place.


	Joerg