On 17/08/17 11:40, Robin Murphy wrote:
> The recently-removed FIXME in iommu_get_domain_for_dev() turns out to
> have been a little misleading, since that check is still worthwhile even
> when groups *are* universal. We have a few IOMMU-aware drivers which
> only care whether their device is already attached to an existing domain
> or not, for which the previous behaviour of iommu_get_domain_for_dev()
> was ideal, and who now crash if their device does not have an IOMMU.
>
> With IOMMU groups now serving as a reliable indicator of whether a
> device has an IOMMU or not (barring false-positives from VFIO no-IOMMU
> mode), drivers could arguably do this:
>
> group = iommu_group_get(dev);
> if (group) {
> domain = iommu_get_domain_for_dev(dev);
> iommu_group_put(group);
> }
>
> However, rather than duplicate that code across multiple callsites,
> particularly when it's still only the domain they care about, let's skip
> straight to the next step and factor out the check into the common place
> it applies - in iommu_get_domain_for_dev() itself. Sure, it ends up
> looking rather familiar, but now it's backed by the reasoning of having
> a robust API able to do the expected thing for all devices regardless.
>
> Fixes: 05f80300dc8b ("iommu: Finish making iommu_group support mandatory")
> Reported-by: Shawn Lin <shawn....@rock-chips.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.mur...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com>
Thanks,
M.
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