linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 09/11] iommu/vt-d: Add bind guest PASID support

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Message-ID: <20191028090231.4777c6a9@jacob-builder>
Date:   Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:02:31 -0700
From:   Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc:     "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 09/11] iommu/vt-d: Add bind guest PASID support

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:03:36 +0000
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com> wrote:

> > > > +	.sva_bind_gpasid	= intel_svm_bind_gpasid,
> > > > +	.sva_unbind_gpasid	= intel_svm_unbind_gpasid,
> > > > +#endif  
> > >
> > > again, pure PASID management logic should be separated from SVM.
> > >  
> > I am not following, these two functions are SVM functionality, not
> > pure PASID management which is already separated in ioasid.c  
> 
> I should say pure "scalable mode" logic. Above callbacks are not
> related to host SVM per se. They are serving gpasid requests from
> guest side, thus part of generic scalable mode capability.
Got your point, but we are sharing data structures with host SVM, it is
very difficult and inefficient to separate the two.