Re: [PATCH v2 09/16] driver core: add iommu device fault reporting data

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 06 2017 - 01:43:36 EST


On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> DMA faults can be detected by IOMMU at device level. Adding a pointer
> to struct device allows IOMMU subsystem to report relevant faults
> back to the device driver for further handling.
> For direct assigned device (or user space drivers), guest OS holds
> responsibility to handle and respond per device IOMMU fault.
> Therefore we need fault reporting mechanism to propagate faults beyond
> IOMMU subsystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>