Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] iommu: Return -EMEDIUMTYPE for incompatible domain and device/group

[Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 01:14:42PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> > I am wondering if this can be solved by better defining what the return
> > codes mean and adjust the call-back functions to match the definition.
> > Something like:
> > 
> > 	-ENODEV : Device not mapped my an IOMMU
> > 	-EBUSY  : Device attached and domain can not be changed
> > 	-EINVAL : Device and domain are incompatible
> > 	...
> 
> Yes, this was gone over in a side thread the pros/cons, so lets do
> it. Nicolin will come with something along these lines.

I have started this effort by combining this list and the one from
the side thread:

@@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ struct iommu_ops {
 /**
  * struct iommu_domain_ops - domain specific operations
  * @attach_dev: attach an iommu domain to a device
+ *              Rules of its return errno:
+ *               ENOMEM  - Out of memory
+ *               EINVAL  - Device and domain are incompatible
+ *               EBUSY   - Device is attached to a domain and cannot be changed
+ *               ENODEV  - Device or domain is messed up: device is not mapped
+ *                         to an IOMMU, no domain can attach, and etc.
+ *              <others> - Same behavior as ENODEV, use is discouraged
  * @detach_dev: detach an iommu domain from a device
  * @map: map a physically contiguous memory region to an iommu domain
  * @map_pages: map a physically contiguous set of pages of the same size to

I am now going through every single return value of ->attach_dev to
make sure the list above applies. And I will also incorporate things
like Robin's comments at the AMD IOMMU driver.

And if the change occurs to be bigger, I guess that separating it to
be an IOMMU series from this VFIO one might be better.

Thanks
Nic