Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID allocation and free it on mm exit

From: Jean-Philippe Brucker
Date: Tue May 03 2022 - 03:50:27 EST


On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 03:33:17PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
> Jean, another quick question about the iommu_sva_bind_device()
>
> /**
> * iommu_sva_bind_device() - Bind a process address space to a device
> * @dev: the device
> * @mm: the mm to bind, caller must hold a reference to it
> * @drvdata: opaque data pointer to pass to bind callback
>
> This interface requires the caller to take a reference to mm. Which
> reference should it take, mm->mm_count or mm->mm_users? It's better to
> make it explicit in this comment.

Agreed, it's mm_users as required by mmu_notifier_register()

Thanks,
Jean