Re: [RFC v2] /dev/iommu uAPI proposal

Raj, Ashok
2021-07-15T13:58:26Z

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 09:48:13AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 06:49:54AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>
> > No. You are right on this case. I don't think there is a way to
> > differentiate one mdev from the other if they come from the
> > same parent and attached by the same guest process. In this
> > case the fault could be reported on either mdev (e.g. the first
> > matching one) to get it fixed in the guest.
>
> If the IOMMU can't distinguish the two mdevs they are not isolated
> and would have to share a group. Since group sharing is not supported
> today this seems like a non-issue

Does this mean we have to prevent 2 mdev's from same pdev being assigned to
the same guest?