[RFC PATCH 2/2] iommu: Add IOMMU_UNBIND_FAULT_PENDING flag

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Oct 16 18:07:59 AEDT 2020


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:00:29AM +0200, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> IOMMU drivers only need to flush their PRI queue when faults might be
> pending. According to the PCIe spec (quoted below) this only happens
> when using the "Stop Marker" method. Otherwise the function waits for
> pending faults before signaling to the device driver that it can
> unbind().
> 
> Add the IOMMU_UNBIND_FAULT_PENDING flags to unbind(), to tell the IOMMU
> driver whether it's worth flushing the queue.

As we have no code using the "stop marker" method please just remove
the code entirely instead of adding a flag that is just dead code.


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