linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID allocation and free it on mm exit

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:36:00 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID
 allocation and free it on mm exit

On Mon, Jan 24 2022 at 21:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> Hrm. This is odd.
>
>> +/* Associate a PASID with an mm_struct: */
>> +static inline void mm_pasid_get(struct mm_struct *mm, u32 pasid)
>> +{
>> +	mm->pasid = pasid;
>> +}
>
> This does not get anything. It sets the allocated PASID in the mm. The
> refcount on the PASID was already taken by the allocation. So this
> should be mm_pasid_set() or mm_pasid_install(), right?

And as a result of all this ioasid_get() is now left without users...

Thanks,

        tglx