linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 07/17] iommufd: Add IOMMU_RESV_IOVA

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Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2023 18:23:23 -0700
From:   Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
CC:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/17] iommufd: Add IOMMU_RESV_IOVA_RANGES

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 01:09:28AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 2:23 AM
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 02:40:44AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > > So, I guess we should leave it like this?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes. Along with this discussion (including what you explained for sw_msi)
> > > let's abandon this new cmd and leave it as today.
> >
> > You sure? This makes it basically impossible to write a "correct" vmm
> > that is aware of what the physical memory map must be early on
> >
> 
> emmm... I thought it's what you meant by "leave it like this" and the
> fact that existing VMM's memory layout happens to match the reserved
> regions. Nobody complains lacking of such a interface for years then
> we may postpone supporting it until it's really required.
> 
> btw even if we add this new cmd now, getting the Qemu support to
> use the aggregated list when creating the guest memory map is not
> a simple task given currently vfio only passively acts on change
> notifications in the guest memory layout. It requires a new mechanism
> to enforce strict order (probe all vfio devices before creating the memory
> layout) and then injects vfio reserved regions into the layout.
> 
> Preferably let's not making it a hard dependency for this series.

Should we drop this and its selftest patch from this series?

Thanks
Nic