Re: [PATCH 06/11] iommu: Expose group variants of dma ownership interfaces

Lu Baolu
2021-11-16T09:42:20Z

Hi Christoph,

On 2021/11/15 21:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:05:47AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>> The vfio needs to set DMA_OWNER_USER for the entire group when attaching
>
> The vfio subsystem? driver?

"vfio subsystem"

>
>> it to a vfio container. So expose group variants of setting/releasing dma
>> ownership for this purpose.
>>
>> This also exposes the helper iommu_group_dma_owner_unclaimed() for vfio
>> report to userspace if the group is viable to user assignment, for
>
> .. for vfio to report .. ?

Yes.

>
>> void iommu_device_release_dma_owner(struct device *dev, enum iommu_dma_owner owner);
>> +int iommu_group_set_dma_owner(struct iommu_group *group, enum iommu_dma_owner owner,
>> + struct file *user_file);
>> +void iommu_group_release_dma_owner(struct iommu_group *group, enum iommu_dma_owner owner);
>
> Pleae avoid all these overly long lines.

Sure. Thanks!

>
>> +static inline int iommu_group_set_dma_owner(struct iommu_group *group,
>> + enum iommu_dma_owner owner,
>> + struct file *user_file)
>> +{
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void iommu_group_release_dma_owner(struct iommu_group *group,
>> + enum iommu_dma_owner owner)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline bool iommu_group_dma_owner_unclaimed(struct iommu_group *group)
>> +{
>> + return false;
>> +}
>
> Why do we need these stubs? All potential callers should already
> require CONFIG_IOMMU_API? Same for the helpers added in patch 1, btw.

You are right. This helper is only for vfio which requires IOMMU_API. I
will remove this.

The helpers in patch 1 seem not the same. The driver core (or bus
dma_configure() callback as suggested) will also call them.

>
>> + mutex_lock(&group->mutex);
>> + ret = __iommu_group_set_dma_owner(group, owner, user_file);
>> + mutex_unlock(&group->mutex);
>
>> + mutex_lock(&group->mutex);
>> + __iommu_group_release_dma_owner(group, owner);
>> + mutex_unlock(&group->mutex);
>
> Unless I'm missing something (just skipping over the patches),
> the existing callers also take the lock just around these calls,
> so we don't really need the __-prefixed lowlevel helpers.
>

Move mutex_lock/unlock will make the helper implementation easier. :-)
It seems to be common code style in iommu core. For example,
__iommu_attach_group(), __iommu_group_for_each_dev(), etc.

>> + mutex_lock(&group->mutex);
>> + owner = group->dma_owner;
>> + mutex_unlock(&group->mutex);
>
> No need for a lock to read a single scalar.

Adding the lock will make kcasn happy. Jason G also told me that

[citing from his review comment]
"
It is always incorrect to read concurrent data without an annotation
of some kind.

For instance it can cause mis-execution of logic where the compiler is
unaware that a value it loads is allowed to change - ie no
READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE semantic.
"

>
>> +
>> + return owner == DMA_OWNER_NONE;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iommu_group_dma_owner_unclaimed);

Best regards,
baolu