Re: [PATCH 1/8] iommu: Decouple iommu_present() from bus ops

From: Baolu Lu
Date: Fri Jan 27 2023 - 08:50:39 EST


On 2023/1/26 22:41, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 02:21:29PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:

The "check" is inherent in the fact that it's been called at all. VFIO
noiommu*is* an IOMMU driver in the sense that it provides a bare minimum of
IOMMU API functionality (i.e. creating groups), sufficient to support
(careful) usage by VFIO drivers. There would not seem to be a legitimate
reason for some*other* driver to be specifically querying a device while it
is already bound to a VFIO driver (and thus may have a noiommu group).
Yes, the devices that VFIO assigns to its internal groups never leak
outside VFIO's control during their assignment - ie they are
continuously bound to VFIO never another driver.

So no other driver can ever see the internal groups unless it is
messing around with devices it is not bound to 😄

Fair enough. I was thinking that probably we could make it like below:

/**
* device_iommu_mapped - Returns true when the device DMA is translated
* by an IOMMU
* @dev: Device to perform the check on
*/
static inline bool device_iommu_mapped(struct device *dev)
{
return (dev->iommu && dev->iommu->iommu_dev);
}

The iommu probe device code guarantees that dev->iommu->iommu_dev is
valid only after the IOMMU driver's .probe_device returned successfully.

Any thoughts?

Best regards,
baolu