linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] IOMMU user API enhancement

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Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:02:36 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Jacob Pan <jacob.pan.linux@...il.com>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.com>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Raj Ashok <ashok.raj@...el.com>, Wu Hao <hao.wu@...el.com>,
        Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] IOMMU user API enhancement

Hi Jacob,

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:57:49PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> IOMMU user API header was introduced to support nested DMA translation and
> related fault handling. The current UAPI data structures consist of three
> areas that cover the interactions between host kernel and guest:
>  - fault handling
>  - cache invalidation
>  - bind guest page tables, i.e. guest PASID
> 
> Future extensions are likely to support more architectures and vIOMMU features.
> 
> In the previous discussion, using user-filled data size and feature flags is
> made a preferred approach over a unified version number.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/29/45
> 
> In addition to introduce argsz field to data structures, this patchset is also
> trying to document the UAPI design, usage, and extension rules. VT-d driver
> changes to utilize the new argsz field is included, VFIO usage is to follow.
> 
> This set is available at:
> https://github.com/jacobpan/linux.git vsva_v5.9_uapi_v9

This changes user visible structs in incompatible ways, are you sure
those are not used yet anywhere?

Please address Randy's comments on patch 1 and my comment about the
build-time checking and repost with linux-api@...r.kernel.org on Cc.

Regards,

	Joerg