Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs

[Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>]

On 2022/10/18 7:01, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> Cases like VFIO wish to attach a device to an existing domain that was
> not allocated specifically from the device. This raises a condition
> where the IOMMU driver can fail the domain attach because the domain and
> device are incompatible with each other.
> 
> This is a soft failure that can be resolved by using a different domain.
> 
> Provide a dedicated errno EINVAL from the IOMMU driver during attach that
> the reason why the attach failed is because of domain incompatibility.
> 
> VFIO can use this to know that the attach is a soft failure and it should
> continue searching. Otherwise, the attach will be a hard failure and VFIO
> will return the code to userspace.
> 
> Update kdocs to add rules of return value to the attach_dev op and APIs.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
> ---
>   drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/iommu.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> index 4893c2429ca5..3c0c5d64bb50 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> @@ -1949,6 +1949,18 @@ static int __iommu_attach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * iommu_attach_device - Attach an IOMMU domain to a device
> + * @domain: IOMMU domain to attach
> + * @dev: Device that will be attached
> + *
> + * Returns 0 on success and error code on failure
> + *
> + * Note that EINVAL can be treated as a soft failure, indicating
> + * that certain configuration of the domain is incompatible with
> + * the device. In this case attaching a different domain to the
> + * device may succeed.
> + */
>   int iommu_attach_device(struct iommu_domain *domain, struct device *dev)
>   {
>   	struct iommu_group *group;
> @@ -2075,6 +2087,18 @@ static int __iommu_attach_group(struct iommu_domain *domain,
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> +/**
> + * iommu_attach_group - Attach an IOMMU domain to an IOMMU group
> + * @domain: IOMMU domain to attach
> + * @group: IOMMU group that will be attached
> + *
> + * Returns 0 on success and error code on failure
> + *
> + * Note that EINVAL can be treated as a soft failure, indicating
> + * that certain configuration of the domain is incompatible with
> + * the group. In this case attaching a different domain to the
> + * group may succeed.
> + */
>   int iommu_attach_group(struct iommu_domain *domain, struct iommu_group *group)
>   {
>   	int ret;
> diff --git a/include/linux/iommu.h b/include/linux/iommu.h
> index a325532aeab5..6f3569340e8a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iommu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iommu.h
> @@ -266,6 +266,18 @@ struct iommu_ops {
>   /**
>    * struct iommu_domain_ops - domain specific operations
>    * @attach_dev: attach an iommu domain to a device
> + *  Return:
> + * * 0		- success
> + * * EINVAL	- can indicate that device and domain are incompatible due to
> + *		  some previous configuration of the domain, in which case the
> + *		  driver shouldn't log an error, since it is legitimate for a
> + *		  caller to test reuse of existing domains. Otherwise, it may
> + *		  still represent some other fundamental problem
> + * * ENOMEM	- out of memory
> + * * ENOSPC	- non-ENOMEM type of resource allocation failures
> + * * EBUSY	- device is attached to a domain and cannot be changed
> + * * ENODEV	- device specific errors, not able to be attached
> + * * <others>	- treated as ENODEV by the caller. Use is discouraged
>    * @detach_dev: detach an iommu domain from a device
>    * @map: map a physically contiguous memory region to an iommu domain
>    * @map_pages: map a physically contiguous set of pages of the same size to

Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>

Best regards,
baolu