Re: [PATCH 01/12] iommu/vt-d: Use iommu_get_domain_for_dev() in debugfs

Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2022-05-31T13:11:00Z

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:02:06AM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:

> For case 2, it is a bit weird. I tried to add a rwsem lock to make the
> iommu_unmap() and dumping tables in debugfs exclusive. This does not
> work because debugfs may depend on the DMA of the devices to work. It
> seems that what we can do is to allow this race, but when we traverse
> the page table in debugfs, we will check the validity of the physical
> address retrieved from the page table entry. Then, the worst case is to
> print some useless information.

Sounds horrible, don't you have locking around the IOPTEs of some
kind? How does updating them work reliably?

It is just debugfs, so maybe it is not the end of the world, but
still..

Jason