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Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2023 10:43:34 -0800
From:   Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
CC:     Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>, <joro@...tes.org>,
        <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        <robin.murphy@....com>, <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        <cohuck@...hat.com>, <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
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        <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>, <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] iommu: Add cache_invalidate_user op

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 05:07:12AM -0800, Yi Liu wrote:
 
> > @@ -465,6 +492,9 @@ struct iommu_domain_ops {
> >  			      size_t size);
> >  	void (*iotlb_sync)(struct iommu_domain *domain,
> >  			   struct iommu_iotlb_gather *iotlb_gather);
> > +	int (*cache_invalidate_user)(struct iommu_domain *domain,
> > +				     struct iommu_user_data_array *array,
> > +				     u32 *error_code);
> 
> Regarding the other conversation I worry a u32 error_code is too small.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no obvious place to put something better so if
> we reach it we will have to add more error_code space via normal
> extension.
> 
> Maybe expand this to u64? That is 64 bits of error register data and
> the consumer index. It should do for SMMUv3 at least?

I think Yi is moving the error_code to the entry data structure,
where we can even define a list of error_codes as a driver data
needs. So, I assume this u32 pointer would be gone too.

Thanks
Nicolin