From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/16] driver core: add iommu device fault reporting data Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:37:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20171218143753.GA14211@kroah.com> References: <1510944914-54430-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> <1510944914-54430-10-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1510944914-54430-10-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Jacob Pan Cc: Lan Tianyu , Rafael Wysocki , iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, LKML , Jean Delvare , David Woodhouse List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:55:07AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote: > DMA faults can be detected by IOMMU at device level. Adding a pointer > to struct device allows IOMMU subsystem to report relevant faults > back to the device driver for further handling. > For direct assigned device (or user space drivers), guest OS holds > responsibility to handle and respond per device IOMMU fault. > Therefore we need fault reporting mechanism to propagate faults beyond > IOMMU subsystem. > > There are two other IOMMU data pointers under struct device today, here > we introduce iommu_param as a parent pointer such that all device IOMMU > data can be consolidated here. The idea was suggested here by Greg KH > and Joerg. The name iommu_param is chosen here since iommu_data has been used. > > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/6/81 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman