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[01/13] driver core: Add iommu_group tracking to struct device

Message ID 20120511225534.30496.54563.stgit@bling.home
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Alex Williamson May 11, 2012, 10:55 p.m. UTC
IOMMU groups allow IOMMU drivers to represent DMA visibility
and isolation of devices.  Multiple devices may be grouped
together for the purposes of DMA.  Placing a pointer on
struct device enable easy access for things like streaming
DMA programming and drivers like VFIO.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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 include/linux/device.h |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


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Comments

Greg KH May 11, 2012, 11:38 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:55:35PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> IOMMU groups allow IOMMU drivers to represent DMA visibility
> and isolation of devices.  Multiple devices may be grouped
> together for the purposes of DMA.  Placing a pointer on
> struct device enable easy access for things like streaming
> DMA programming and drivers like VFIO.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Can't you get this today from the iommu_ops pointer that is on the bus
that the device is associated with?  Or can devices on a bus have
different iommu_group pointers?

thanks,

greg k-h
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Alex Williamson May 11, 2012, 11:58 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 16:38 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:55:35PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > IOMMU groups allow IOMMU drivers to represent DMA visibility
> > and isolation of devices.  Multiple devices may be grouped
> > together for the purposes of DMA.  Placing a pointer on
> > struct device enable easy access for things like streaming
> > DMA programming and drivers like VFIO.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> 
> Can't you get this today from the iommu_ops pointer that is on the bus
> that the device is associated with?  Or can devices on a bus have
> different iommu_group pointers?

The latter, each device on a bus might be it's own group.  This is often
the case on x86 unless PCIe-to-PCI bridges obscure the device
visibility.  Thanks,

Alex

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Greg KH May 12, 2012, midnight UTC | #3
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:58:01PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 16:38 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:55:35PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > IOMMU groups allow IOMMU drivers to represent DMA visibility
> > > and isolation of devices.  Multiple devices may be grouped
> > > together for the purposes of DMA.  Placing a pointer on
> > > struct device enable easy access for things like streaming
> > > DMA programming and drivers like VFIO.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Can't you get this today from the iommu_ops pointer that is on the bus
> > that the device is associated with?  Or can devices on a bus have
> > different iommu_group pointers?
> 
> The latter, each device on a bus might be it's own group.  This is often
> the case on x86 unless PCIe-to-PCI bridges obscure the device
> visibility.  Thanks,

Ah, ok, then I have no objection to add this to struct device:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 5ad17cc..13dd26b 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@  struct subsys_private;
 struct bus_type;
 struct device_node;
 struct iommu_ops;
+struct iommu_group;
 
 struct bus_attribute {
 	struct attribute	attr;
@@ -677,6 +678,7 @@  struct device {
 	const struct attribute_group **groups;	/* optional groups */
 
 	void	(*release)(struct device *dev);
+	struct iommu_group	*iommu_group;
 };
 
 /* Get the wakeup routines, which depend on struct device */