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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 3/6] iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:24:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BN9PR11MB527658C31268EB4A8411EDE88C4C9@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <822a983febf7e259aa2aca70dddd382810b96117.1663227492.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com>

> From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2022 3:54 PM
> 
> +/**
> + * iommu_attach_device - Attach a device to an IOMMU domain
> + * @domain: IOMMU domain to attach
> + * @dev: Device that will be attached
> + *
> + * Returns 0 on success and error code on failure
> + *
> + * Note that EINVAL may be returned as a soft failure if the domain and
> device
> + * are incompatible: if the domain has already been used or configured in
> some

I didn't get the meaning of the 'if' part.

> + * way, attaching the same device to a different domain may succeed.
> Otherwise,
> + * it may still represent some fundamental problem.

I'm not sure what the sentence after 'otherwise' actually adds to the
caller. There is no way to differentiate incompatibility vs. fundamental
problem, hence pointless for the caller to know this fact.

IMHO just state that the caller can treat -EINVAL as soft failure indicating
incompatibility issue between domain and device.

Later for @attach_dev you can add that driver may return (but not
recommend) -EINVAL for some fundamental problems.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-20  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-15  7:53 [PATCH v3 0/6] Define EINVAL as device/domain incompatibility Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:24   ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
2022-09-20 19:26     ` Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] iommu: Use EINVAL for incompatible device/domain in ->attach_dev Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:38   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 18:06     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-21  8:14       ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-15  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] iommu/msm: Add missing __disable_clocks calls Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:15   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 18:46     ` Nicolin Chen
2022-09-21  7:27       ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-15  7:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] iommu/amd: Drop unnecessary checks in amd_iommu_attach_device() Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:58 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] iommu: Regulate EINVAL in ->attach_dev callback functions Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:29   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 16:08     ` Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:58 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] iommu: Propagate ret for a potential soft failure EINVAL Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:50   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 20:39     ` Nicolin Chen

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