Re: [PATCH kernel] powerpc/iommu: Add iommu_ops to report capabilities and allow blocking domains

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 11:32:58PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > For power the default domain should be NULL
> > 
> > NULL means that the platform is using the group to provide its DMA
> > ops. IIRC this patch was already setup correctly to do this?
> > 
> > The transition from NULL to blocking must isolate the group so all DMA
> > is blocked. blocking to NULL should re-estbalish platform DMA API
> > control.
> > 
> > The default domain should be non-NULL when the normal dma-iommu stuff is
> > providing the DMA API.
> > 
> > So, I think it is already setup properly, it is just the question of
> > what to do when entering/leaving blocking mode.
> 
> Well, the patch calls iommu_probe_device() which calls
> iommu_alloc_default_domain() which creates IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED
> (==0) as

Yes, we always create a blocking domain during probe, but it isn't
used until required

> nothing initialized iommu_def_domain_type. Need a different default type
> (and return NULL when IOMMU API tries creating this type)?

iommu_alloc_default_domain() should fail on power because none of the
domain types it tries to create are supported. This should result in a
NULL group->default_domain

Jason