linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] iommu/ioasid: Introduce system-wide capacity

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Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:08:00 -0700
From:   Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        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>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] iommu/ioasid: Introduce system-wide capacity

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:07:20 +0000
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com> wrote:

> > From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:55 AM
> > 
> > IOASID is a limited system-wide resource that can be allocated at
> > runtime. This limitation can be enumerated during boot. For
> > example, on x86 platforms, PCI Process Address Space ID (PASID)
> > allocation uses IOASID service. The number of supported PASID bits
> > are enumerated by extended capability register as defined in the
> > VT-d spec.
> > 
> > This patch adds a helper to set the system capacity, it expected to
> > be set during boot prior to any allocation request.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iommu/ioasid.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/ioasid.h |  5 ++++-
> >  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/ioasid.c b/drivers/iommu/ioasid.c
> > index 0f8dd377aada..4026e52855b9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/ioasid.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/ioasid.c
> > @@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ struct ioasid_data {
> >  	struct rcu_head rcu;
> >  };
> > 
> > +static ioasid_t ioasid_capacity;
> > +static ioasid_t ioasid_capacity_avail;
> > +
> > +/* System capacity can only be set once */
> > +void ioasid_install_capacity(ioasid_t total)
> > +{
> > +	if (ioasid_capacity) {
> > +		pr_warn("IOASID capacity already set at %d\n",
> > ioasid_capacity);
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ioasid_capacity = ioasid_capacity_avail = total;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ioasid_install_capacity);
> > +  
> 
> From all the texts in this patch, looks ioasid_set_capacity might be
> a better name?
> 
That was my initial choice as well :), but it may get confused with
ioasid_set.

I will rephrase the text to avoid 'set'.

> >  /*
> >   * struct ioasid_allocator_data - Internal data structure to hold
> > information
> >   * about an allocator. There are two types of allocators:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/ioasid.h b/include/linux/ioasid.h
> > index 6f000d7a0ddc..9711fa0dc357 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/ioasid.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/ioasid.h
> > @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void *ioasid_find(struct ioasid_set *set,
> > ioasid_t ioasid, int ioasid_register_allocator(struct
> > ioasid_allocator_ops *allocator); void
> > ioasid_unregister_allocator(struct ioasid_allocator_ops
> > *allocator); int ioasid_set_data(ioasid_t ioasid, void *data); -
> > +void ioasid_install_capacity(ioasid_t total);
> >  #else /* !CONFIG_IOASID */
> >  static inline ioasid_t ioasid_alloc(struct ioasid_set *set,
> > ioasid_t min, ioasid_t max, void *private)
> > @@ -72,5 +72,8 @@ static inline int ioasid_set_data(ioasid_t
> > ioasid, void *data)
> >  	return -ENOTSUPP;
> >  }
> > 
> > +static inline void ioasid_install_capacity(ioasid_t total)
> > +{
> > +}
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_IOASID */
> >  #endif /* __LINUX_IOASID_H */
> > --
> > 2.7.4  
> 

[Jacob Pan]