On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 08:56:43AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:52:09AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > So having said this, what is the benefit of exposing those SVA internals
> > to user-space?
>
> Only the device use of the PASID is device specific, the actual PASID
> and everything on the IOMMU side is generic.
>
> There is enough API there it doesn't make sense to duplicate it into
> every single SVA driver.
What generic things have to be done by the drivers besides
allocating/deallocating PASIDs and binding an address space to it?
Is there anything which isn't better handled in a kernel-internal
library which drivers just use?
Regards,
Joerg
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