RE: [PATCH 0/5] Share sva domains with all devices bound to a mm

Tian, Kevin
2023-08-09T09:44:18Z

> From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 8:18 AM
>
> On 2023/8/8 15:49, Tina Zhang wrote:
> > A sva domain's lifetime begins with binding a device to a mm and ends
> > by releasing all the bound devices from that sva domain. Technically,
> > there could be more than one sva domain identified by the mm PASID for
> > the use of bound devices issuing DMA transactions.
> >
> > To support mm PASID 1:n with sva domains, each mm needs to keep both
> a
> > reference list of allocated sva domains and the corresponding PASID.
> > However, currently, mm struct only has one pasid field for sva usage,
> > which is used to keep the info of an assigned PASID. That pasid field
> > cannot provide sufficient info to build up the 1:n mapping between PASID
> > and sva domains.
>
> Is it more appropriate to have the same life cycle for sva domain and mm
> pasid? I feel that they represent the same thing, that is, the address
> space shared by mm to a device.
>

iirc it's a simplification to free mm pasid at __mmdrop() otherwise the
implementation is tricky, but I don't remember all the detail...