[RFC PATCH 1/3] powerpc/pseries/iommu: Bring back userspace view for single level TCE tables

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Wed Mar 20 01:32:02 AEDT 2024


On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 01:14:20PM -0500, Shivaprasad G Bhat wrote:
> The commit 090bad39b237a ("powerpc/powernv: Add indirect levels to
> it_userspace") which implemented the tce indirect levels
> support for PowerNV ended up removing the single level support
> which existed by default(generic tce_iommu_userspace_view_alloc/free()
> calls). On pSeries the TCEs are single level, and the allocation
> of userspace view is lost with the removal of generic code.

:( :(

If this has been broken since 2018 and nobody cared till now can we
please go in a direction of moving this code to the new iommu APIs
instead of doubling down on more of this old stuff that apparently
almost nobody cares about ??

Jason


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