Re: [PATCH v5 17/19] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Share ITS tables with a non-trusted hypervisor

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:19:22 +0100,
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Within a realm guest the ITS is emulated by the host. This means the
> allocations must have been made available to the host by a call to
> set_memory_decrypted(). Introduce an allocation function which performs
> this extra call.
> 
> For the ITT use a custom genpool-based allocator that calls
> set_memory_decrypted() for each page allocated, but then suballocates
> the size needed for each ITT. Note that there is no mechanism
> implemented to return pages from the genpool, but it is unlikely the
> peak number of devices will so much larger than the normal level - so
> this isn't expected to be an issue.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since v3:
>  * Use BIT() macro.
>  * Use a genpool based allocator in its_create_device() to avoid
>    allocating a full page.
>  * Fix subject to drop "realm" and use gic-v3-its.
>  * Add error handling to ITS alloc/free.
> Changes since v2:
>  * Drop 'shared' from the new its_xxx function names as they are used
>    for non-realm guests too.
>  * Don't handle the NUMA_NO_NODE case specially - alloc_pages_node()
>    should do the right thing.
>  * Drop a pointless (void *) cast.
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

I think this patch and the next are pretty ripe, and shouldn't have to
wait much longer.

Can you please send them as a separate irqchip series, with the
relevant people on Cc (realistically, tglx and me), with a

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

added to them?

Thanks,

	M.

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