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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, yi.l.liu@intel.com, iommu@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] iommufd: Add devices_users to track the hw_pagetable usage by device
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:50:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9gfbx/fszb0aTJn@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9gaKaMKOf+P2NtK@Asurada-Nvidia>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 11:27:37AM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 11:02:25AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 01:18:09PM -0800, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > > From: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Currently, hw_pagetable tracks the attached devices using a device list.
> > > When attaching the first device to the kernel-managed hw_pagetable, it
> > > should be linked to IOAS. When detaching the last device from this hwpt,
> > > the link with IOAS should be removed too. And this first-or-last device
> > > check is done with list_empty(hwpt->devices).
> > > 
> > > However, with a nested configuration, when a device is attached to the
> > > user-managed stage-1 hw_pagetable, it will be added to this user-managed
> > > hwpt's device list instead of the kernel-managed stage-2 hwpt's one. And
> > > this breaks the logic for a kernel-managed hw_pagetable link/disconnect
> > > to/from IOAS/IOPT. e.g. the stage-2 hw_pagetable would be linked to IOAS
> > > multiple times if multiple device is attached, but it will become empty
> > > as soon as one device detached.
> > 
> > Why this seems really weird to say.
> > 
> > The stage 2 is linked explicitly to the IOAS that drives it's
> > map/unmap
> > 
> > Why is there any implicit activity here? There should be no implicit
> > attach of the S2 to an IOAS ever.
> 
> I think this is supposed to say the following use case:
> 
> Two stage-1 hwpts share the same parent s2_hwpt:
> 
> attach device1 to stage-1 hwpt1:
> 	...
> 	if (list_empty(s1_hwpt1->devices))		// empty; true
> 		iopt_table_add_domain(s2_hwpt->domain); // do once
> 	s1_hwpt1 device list cnt++;
> 	...

No, this doesn't make sense.

The s2_hwpt should be created explicitly, not using autodomains

When it is created it should be linked to a single IOAS and that is
when iopt_table_add_domain() should have been called.

The S1 attach should do *nothing* to a S2.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-30 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-28 21:18 [PATCH v2 0/3] iommufd: Remove iommufd_hw_pagetable_has_group Nicolin Chen
2023-01-28 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] iommufd: Add devices_users to track the hw_pagetable usage by device Nicolin Chen
2023-01-29  9:23   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-01-29  9:30     ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-29  9:39       ` Tian, Kevin
2023-01-30  2:22     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-01-30 15:02   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 19:27     ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-30 19:50       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-01-30 20:04         ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-30 20:35           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 20:53             ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-01  7:48               ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-02  9:12                 ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-07  4:19                   ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-01  6:57             ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-01  7:56               ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-01 15:53               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-01 17:46                 ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-01 18:37                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-01 19:25                     ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-01 20:00                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-01 21:18                         ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-02  7:28                           ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-02 15:03                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-07  4:27                       ` Liu, Yi L
2023-01-28 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] iommufd/device: Make hwpt_list list_add/del symmetric Nicolin Chen
2023-01-29  9:24   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-01-29  9:31     ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-30 14:59   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 19:03     ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-30 19:07       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-30 19:38         ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-28 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] iommufd/device: Change iommufd_hw_pagetable_has_group to device centric Nicolin Chen
2023-01-29  9:37   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-01-29 10:38     ` Nicolin Chen
2023-01-30  0:44       ` Tian, Kevin
2023-01-30 10:22       ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-01  3:07         ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-01  6:49           ` Baolu Lu
2023-02-01  6:59             ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-01  7:20               ` Nicolin Chen
2023-02-02  6:32                 ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-02  6:36                   ` Nicolin Chen

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