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Message-ID: <BL1PR11MB5271F7BEA6187ACBD6BA88568CD8A@BL1PR11MB5271.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:55:42 +0000
From:   "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To:     Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>,
        "jgg@...dia.com" <jgg@...dia.com>
CC:     "joro@...tes.org" <joro@...tes.org>,
        "will@...nel.org" <will@...nel.org>,
        "robin.murphy@....com" <robin.murphy@....com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux.dev" <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/2] iommufd: Only enforce_cache_coherency when allocating
 hwpt

> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2023 9:33 AM
> 
> On 2023/10/21 8:37, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-
> iommu/20231020135501.GG3952@...dia.com/
> > The conversation above concluded that a hwpt should only enforce cache
> > coherency per device at the stage of its allocation, and it should not
> > be changed or updated in the attach/replace routines.
> >
> > Add two patches dropping the enforce_cache_coherency calls from attach
> > and replce routines respectively, since they were introduced with two
> > different commits.
> >
> > Nicolin Chen (2):
> >    iommufd/device: Drop enforce_cache_coherency in
> >      iommufd_device_do_replace
> >    iommufd/device: Drop enforce_cache_coherency in
> >      iommufd_hw_pagetable_attach
> >
> >   drivers/iommu/iommufd/device.c          | 19 ++-----------------
> >   drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c    |  2 +-
> >   drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h |  1 -
> >   3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> Hi Kevin and Jason,
> 
> With these two fixes, there's no issue in the intel driver any more. Do
> I understand it right?
> 

But code-wise it's still good to explicitly disallow enforce-cc on a
non-empty domain if there is no plan to support it. Just no Fix to
stable.

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