linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 09/23] iommufd: Abstract iopt_pin_pages and iopt_unpin

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Message-ID: <20250514184515.GG382960@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 15:45:15 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/23] iommufd: Abstract iopt_pin_pages and
 iopt_unpin_pages helpers

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:02:30PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> The new HW QUEUE object will be added for HW to access the guest queue for
> HW-accelerated virtualization feature. It needs to ensure the guest memory
> pages are pinned when HW accesses them and they are contiguous in physical
> address space.
> 
> This is very like the existing iommufd_access_pin_pages() that outputs the
> pinned page list for the caller to test its contiguity.
> 
> Move those code from iommufd_access_pin/unpin_pages() and related function
> for a pair of iopt helpers that can be shared with the HW QUEUE allocator.
> 
> Rename check_area_prot() to align with the existing iopt_area helpers, and
> inline it to the header since iommufd_access_rw() still uses it.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.h    |   8 ++
>  drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h |   6 ++
>  drivers/iommu/iommufd/device.c          | 117 ++----------------------
>  drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c    |  95 +++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>

Jason