linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Add a quirk flag for scope mismatched devices

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Message-ID: <20200107132751.GA584@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 05:27:51 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>,
        Jim Yan <jimyan@...du.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Add a quirk flag for scope mismatched
 devices

WTF is a NVMe host supposed to mean for a PCIe device.  NVMe defines
the host as following:

"1.6.16 host

An entity that interfaces to an NVM subsystem through one or more
controllers and submits commands to Submission Queues and retrieves
command completions from Completion Queues."

in other words - the Linux kernel is the NVMe host.  You need to
describe this magic broken piece of crap a lot better than that.