linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 5/7] x86/mmu: Allocate/free PASID

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:59:43 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>
CC:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        "Mehta, Sohil" <sohil.mehta@...el.com>,
        "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/7] x86/mmu: Allocate/free PASID

>> So the driver needs to use flush/drain operations to make sure all
>> the in-flight work has completed before releasing/re-using the PASID.
>> 
> Are you suggesting we should let driver also hold a reference of the
> PASID?

The sequence for bare metal is:

	process is queuing requests to DSA
	process exits (either deliberately, or crashes, or is killed)
	kernel does exit processing
	DSA driver is called as part of tear down of "mm"
		issues drain/flush commands to ensure that all
		queued operations on the PASID for this mm have
		completed
	PASID can be freed

There's a 1:1 map from "mm" to PASID ... so reference counting seems
like overkill. Once the kernel is in the "exit" path, we know that no more
work can be queued using this PASID.

-Tony