Re: [PATCH v4 05/11] iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID allocation and free it on mm exit

Dave Hansen
2022-04-25T15:53:55Z

On 4/25/22 07:26, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
>>
>> How does the IOMMU hardware know that all activity to a given PASID is
>> finished? That activity should, today, be independent of an mm or a
>> fd's lifetime.
> In the case of uacce, it's tied to the fd lifetime: opening an accelerator
> queue calls iommu_sva_bind_device(), which sets up the PASID context in
> the IOMMU. Closing the queue calls iommu_sva_unbind_device() which
> destroys the PASID context (after the device driver stopped all DMA for
> this PASID).

Could this PASID context destruction move from being "fd-based" to
happening under mm_pasid_drop()? Logically, it seems like that should
work because mm_pasid_drop() happens after exit_mmap() where the VMAs
(which hold references to 'struct file' via vma->vm_file) are torn down.