RE: [PATCH RFC v3 04/12] iommu/sva: Basic data structures for SVA

From: Tian, Kevin
Date: Tue Apr 12 2022 - 03:25:55 EST


> From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2022 6:25 PM
>
> Use below data structures for SVA implementation in the IOMMU core:
>
> - struct iommu_sva_ioas
> Represent the I/O address space shared with an application CPU address
> space. This structure has a 1:1 relationship with an mm_struct. It
> graps a "mm->mm_count" refcount during creation and drop it on release.
>
> - struct iommu_domain (IOMMU_DOMAIN_SVA type)
> Represent a hardware pagetable that the IOMMU hardware could use for
> SVA translation. Multiple iommu domains could be bound with an SVA ioas
> and each graps a refcount from ioas in order to make sure ioas could
> only be freed after all domains have been unbound.
>
> - struct iommu_sva
> Represent a bond relationship between an SVA ioas and an iommu domain.
> If a bond already exists, it's reused and a reference is taken.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This should be patch07. None of following patches touch those structures
until hitting patch08.