Re: [PATCH 3/5] iommu/s390: Use RCU to allow concurrent domain_list iteration

Jason Gunthorpe
2022-10-20T11:05:31Z

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:51:10AM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:

> Ok that makes sense thanks for the explanation. So yes my assessment is
> still that in this situation the IOTLB flush is architected to return
> an error that we can ignore. Not the most elegant I admit but at least
> it's simple. Alternatively I guess we could use call_rcu() to do the
> zpci_unregister_ioat() but I'm not sure how to then make sure that a
> subsequent zpci_register_ioat() only happens after that without adding
> too much more logic.

This won't work either as the domain could have been freed before the
call_rcu() happens, the domain needs to be detached synchronously

Jason