On 24/08/18 15:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 02:28:49PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
From: Tom Murphy <[email protected]>
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This patch allows the IOMMU API path in the AMD driver to be called from an
atomic context.
This is useful for anyone building a driver which needs to call the IOMMU API
while holding a spinlock.
I don't think that is a good idea. Please point to the code in the
driver and we can't probably find a better solution.
Although IIRC the AMD driver is in fact the only one whose map/unmap
callbacks aren't already spinlock-safe (or at least it was last time I
was looking). Stuff like iommu-dma is already relying on this in order
to implement streaming DMA API calls (which may be in atomic context) on
top of the corresponding IOMMU API operations.
Robin.
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