linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 18/23] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd: Support implementation-defined hw

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Message-ID: <20250516132257.GE613512@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 10:22:57 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/23] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-iommufd: Support
 implementation-defined hw_info

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 01:17:47PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > I think the former is simpler to code, you can just add the req_type
> > to the signatures and if the driver comes back with a type != req_type
> > the core code will return EOPNOTSUPP
> 
> OK.
> 
> Maybe just turn the out_data_type to be bidirectional?

You can do that, bu you need to add a flag to turn it on.  We didn't
validate that it was 0 on input before so we can't start now.

Jason