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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Jacob Pan <jacob.pan.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.com>,
	Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
	Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Raj Ashok <ashok.raj@intel.com>, Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>,
	Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] IOMMU user API enhancement
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:02:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918100235.GQ31590@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1599861476-53416-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>

Hi Jacob,

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:57:49PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> IOMMU user API header was introduced to support nested DMA translation and
> related fault handling. The current UAPI data structures consist of three
> areas that cover the interactions between host kernel and guest:
>  - fault handling
>  - cache invalidation
>  - bind guest page tables, i.e. guest PASID
> 
> Future extensions are likely to support more architectures and vIOMMU features.
> 
> In the previous discussion, using user-filled data size and feature flags is
> made a preferred approach over a unified version number.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/29/45
> 
> In addition to introduce argsz field to data structures, this patchset is also
> trying to document the UAPI design, usage, and extension rules. VT-d driver
> changes to utilize the new argsz field is included, VFIO usage is to follow.
> 
> This set is available at:
> https://github.com/jacobpan/linux.git vsva_v5.9_uapi_v9

This changes user visible structs in incompatible ways, are you sure
those are not used yet anywhere?

Please address Randy's comments on patch 1 and my comment about the
build-time checking and repost with linux-api@vger.kernel.org on Cc.

Regards,

	Joerg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-11 21:57 Jacob Pan
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 1/7] docs: IOMMU user API Jacob Pan
2020-09-16 18:26   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 2/7] iommu/uapi: Add argsz for user filled data Jacob Pan
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 3/7] iommu/uapi: Introduce enum type for PASID data format Jacob Pan
2020-09-18  9:44   ` Joerg Roedel
     [not found]     ` <20200918101108.672c2f5a@jacob-builder>
2020-09-22 20:24       ` Jacob Pan
2020-09-24  8:40       ` Joerg Roedel
2020-09-24 18:31         ` Jacob Pan
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 4/7] iommu/uapi: Use named union for user data Jacob Pan
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 5/7] iommu/uapi: Rename uapi functions Jacob Pan
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 6/7] iommu/uapi: Handle data and argsz filled by users Jacob Pan
2020-09-11 21:57 ` [PATCH v9 7/7] iommu/vt-d: Check UAPI data processed by IOMMU core Jacob Pan
2020-09-18 10:02 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2020-09-18 17:26   ` [PATCH v9 0/7] IOMMU user API enhancement Jacob Pan

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