On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 04:56:23PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 00:44:54 -0800
> Neo Jia <c...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:19:27AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> > > This adds the support to determine the isolation type
> > > of a mediated device group by checking whether it has
> > > an iommu device. If an iommu device exists, an iommu
> > > domain will be allocated and then attached to the iommu
> > > device. Otherwise, keep the same behavior as it is.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok....@intel.com>
> > > Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun....@linux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sanjay Kumar <sanjay.k.ku...@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Liu Yi L <yi.l....@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu...@linux.intel.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.bruc...@arm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > >  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c 
> > > b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > > index ccc4165474aa..f1392c582a3c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> > > @@ -1368,13 +1368,40 @@ static void vfio_iommu_detach_group(struct 
> > > vfio_domain *domain,
> > >           iommu_detach_group(domain->domain, group->iommu_group);
> > >  }
> > >    
> > 
> > Hi Baolu,
> > 
> > To allow IOMMU-awared mdev, I think you need to modify the
> > vfio_iommu_type1_pin_pages and vfio_iommu_type1_unpin_pages to remove the
> > iommu->external_domain check.
> > 
> > Could you please include that in your patch? If not, I can send out a 
> > separate
> > patch to address that issue.
> 
> I figured it was intentional that an IOMMU backed mdev would not use
> the pin/unpin interface and therefore the exiting -EINVAL returns would
> be correct.  Can you elaborate on the use case for still requiring the
> mdev pin/unpin interface for these devices?  Thanks,

Sure. We are using this api to fetch a pfn of a guest physical address so we can
access it for PV.

Thanks,
Neo

> 
> Alex
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