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SubjectRe: [PATCH 07/10] iommu/ioasid: Use mutex instead of spinlock
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:55:28AM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Each IOASID or set could have multiple users with its own HW context
> to maintain. Often times access to the HW context requires thread context.
> For example, consumers of IOASIDs can register notification blocks to
> sync up its states. Having an atomic notifier is not feasible for these
> update operations.
>
> This patch converts allocator lock from spinlock to mutex in preparation
> for IOASID notifier.

Unfortunately this doesn't work for SVA, which needs to call ioasid_free()
from the RCU callback of mmu_notifier_put(), which cannot sleep. We're
relying on MMU notifers this way to ensure that there is a single IOASID
per mm.

Thanks,
Jean

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