Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] iommu/amd: Use iommu_attach/detach_device()

From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] iommu/amd: Use iommu_attach/detach_device()
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:23:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YgplyyjofwlM+1tc@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220214140236.GC929467@nvidia.com>

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:02:36AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> That works for VFIO, but it doesn't work for other in-kernel
> drivers.. Is there something ensuring the group is only the GPU and
> sound device? Is the GPU never an addin card?

GPUs supporting this functionality are always iGPUs, AFAIK.

> I'd say the right way to code this after Lu's series to have both the
> GPU and sound driver call iommu_attach_device() during their probe()'s
> and specify the identity domain as the attaching domain.
> 
> That would be quite similar to how the Tegra drivers got arranged.
> 
> And then maybe someone could better guess what the "sound driver" is
> since it would be marked with an iommu_attach_device() call.

Device drivers calling into iommu_attach_device() is seldom a good
idea.  In this case the sound device has some generic hardware
interface so that an existing sound driver can be re-used. Making this
driver call iommu-specific functions for some devices is something hard
to justify.

With sub-groups on the other hand it would be a no-brainer, because the
sound device would be in a separate sub-group. Basically any device in
the same group as the GPU would be in a separate sub-group.

Regards,

	Joerg
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