Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Introduce a per-domain arm_smmu_invs array

[Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 03:41:58PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:54:17AM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > +struct arm_smmu_invs *arm_smmu_invs_merge(struct arm_smmu_invs *invs,
> > +					  struct arm_smmu_invs *to_merge)
> > +{
> > +	struct arm_smmu_invs *new_invs;
> > +	struct arm_smmu_inv *new;
> > +	size_t num_trashes = 0;
> > +	size_t num_adds = 0;
> > +	size_t i, j;
> > +
> > +	for (i = j = 0; i != invs->num_invs || j != to_merge->num_invs;) {
> > +		int cmp = arm_smmu_invs_cmp(invs, i, to_merge, j);
> > +
> > +		/* Skip any unwanted trash entry */
> > +		if (cmp < 0 && !refcount_read(&invs->inv[i].users)) {
> 
> Do we need cmp < 0 here and in all these other similar ifs? Can't we
> just fully ignore trash entries no matter how they cmopare to the
> other list?
 
The index "i" might overflow in case of cmp > 1. So, if we don't
check cmp, we'd need to check "i != invs->num_invs" instead.

> If cmp ==0 and we do num_trash++ then the next iteration will see j
> ass cmp > 1 so it will do num_adds++ and the two will cancel out.

Yea, cmp == 0 should work with an additional iteration.

Perhaps we can do this:

+		int cmp;
+
+		/* Skip any trash entry */
+		if (i != invs->num_invs && !refcount_read(&invs->inv[i].users)) {
+			num_trashes++;
+			i++;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		cmp = arm_smmu_invs_cmp(invs, i, to_merge, j);

And I will fix the other two places too.

Thanks
Nicolin