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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 12:01:08 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
Cc: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] iommufd: Add data structure for Intel VT-d
 stage-1 cache invalidation

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 10:24:42AM +0800, Yi Liu wrote:
> On 2024/1/3 07:38, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:01:19PM +0800, Yi Liu wrote:
> > > > I think I misread Yi's narrative: dev_id is a working approach
> > > > for VMM to convert to a vRID, while he is asking for a better
> > > > alternative :)
> > > 
> > > In concept, dev_id works, but in reality we have problem to get a dev_id
> > > for a given device in intel iommu driver, hence I'm asking for help here. :)
> > 
> > I think we just need to solve this one way or another.. Even if you
> > use a viommu object you still end up having difficult coupling to
> > iommufd
> > 
> > Some:
> >    iommufd_get_dev_id(struct iommufd_ctx *ictx, struct device *dev)
> > 
> > Callable by a driver (using the driver-callable function
> > infrastructure we made for dirty tracking) Is really all that is
> > needed here.
> 
> yep, I noticed IOMMUFD_DRIVER was selected by intel iommu driver when
> IOMMUFD is configed. Maybe such an API could be compiled when
> IOMMUFD_DRIVER is enabled as well. This does address my concern on making
> intel iommu driver depending on iommufd. But still need a way to pass in
> the iommufd_ctx pointer to intel iommu driver, and store it. Hence intel
> iommu driver could call the above iommufd_get_dev_id(). One possible way is
> passing it when attaching device to domain and clear it in detach. However,
> this seems not ideal as iommufd_ctx information should be static between
> bind_iommufd and unbind. But we don't call into intel iommu driver in the
> bind and unbind operations. May need to add new iommu op. Any suggestion
> here?

You can pass the ctx to the invalidate op, it is already implied
because the passed iommu_domain is linked to a single iommufd ctx.

Jason

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