Re: [PATCH v1 08/22] vfio: init HostIOMMUContext per-container

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 01:03:28PM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 5:40 AM
> > To: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 08/22] vfio: init HostIOMMUContext per-container
> > 
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 05:36:05AM -0700, Liu Yi L wrote:
> > > After confirming dual stage DMA translation support with kernel by
> > > checking VFIO_TYPE1_NESTING_IOMMU, VFIO inits HostIOMMUContet instance
> > > and exposes it to PCI layer. Thus vIOMMU emualtors may make use of
> > > such capability by leveraging the methods provided by HostIOMMUContext.
> > >
> > > Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> > > Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > > Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  hw/vfio/common.c                      | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  hw/vfio/pci.c                         | 13 ++++++
> > >  include/hw/iommu/host_iommu_context.h |  3 ++
> > >  include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h         |  4 ++
> > >  4 files changed, 100 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/hw/vfio/common.c b/hw/vfio/common.c
> > > index c276732..e4f5f10 100644
> > > --- a/hw/vfio/common.c
> > > +++ b/hw/vfio/common.c
> > > @@ -1179,10 +1179,55 @@ static int vfio_get_iommu_type(VFIOContainer
> > *container,
> > >      return -EINVAL;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +static int vfio_host_icx_pasid_alloc(HostIOMMUContext *host_icx,
> > 
> > I'm not sure about Alex, but ... icx is confusing to me.  Maybe "ctx"
> > as you always used?
> 
> At first I used vfio_host_iommu_ctx_pasid_alloc(), found it is long, so I
> switched to "icx" which means iommu_context. Maybe the former one
> looks better as it gives more precise info.

vfio_host_iommu_ctx_pasid_alloc() isn't that bad imho.  I'll omit the
"ctx" if I want to make it even shorter, but "icx" might be ambiguous.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu