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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] iommu: Make pasid array per device
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 12:44:03AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 10:16 PM
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 02:31:23PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> > > The PCI PASID enabling interface guarantees that the address space used
> > > by each PASID is unique. This is achieved by checking that the PCI ACS
> > > path is enabled for the device. If the path is not enabled, then the
> > > PASID feature cannot be used.
> > >
> > > if (!pci_acs_path_enabled(pdev, NULL, PCI_ACS_RR | PCI_ACS_UF))
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > The PASID array is not an attribute of the IOMMU group. It is more
> > > natural to store the PASID array in the per-device IOMMU data. This
> > > makes the code clearer and easier to understand. No functional changes
> > > are intended.
> >
> > Is there a reason to do this?
> >
> > *PCI* requires the ACS/etc because PCI kind of messed up how switches
> > handled PASID so PASID doesn't work otherwise.
> >
> > But there is nothing that says other bus type can't have working
> > (non-PCI) PASID and still have device isolation issues.
> >
> > So unless there is a really strong reason to do this we should keep
> > the PASID list in the group just like the domain.
> >
>
> this comes from the consensus in [1].
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/ZAcyEzN4102gPsWC@nvidia.com/

That consensus was that we don't have PASID support if there is
multi-device groups, at least in iommufd.. That makes sense. If we
want to change the core code to enforce this that also makes sense

But this series is just moving the array?

Jason

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