linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 03/13] PCI: pci_stub: Suppress kernel DMA ownership auto-claiming

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Message-ID: <20220103195318.GA2328285@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jan 2022 15:53:18 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/13] PCI: pci_stub: Suppress kernel DMA ownership
 auto-claiming

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 09:10:43AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:

> We still need to call iommu_device_use_dma_api() in bus dma_configure()
> callback. But we can call iommu_device_unuse_dma_api() in the .probe()
> of vfio (and vfio-approved) drivers, so that we don't need the new flag
> anymore.

No, we can't. The action that iommu_device_use_dma_api() takes is to
not call probe, it obviously cannot be undone by code inside probe.

Jason