iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs
authorNicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:01:22 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Tue, 1 Nov 2022 17:39:59 +0000 (14:39 -0300)
commit00208852d351ca6e4a8b9ff0c5376fa3a8ed8eaa
treeead4c5a495cdd8f62b5da58fe099e8eb83f83895
parent79218fd0b38bb05e8dcb80a49342836274046432
iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs

Cases like VFIO wish to attach a device to an existing domain that was
not allocated specifically from the device. This raises a condition
where the IOMMU driver can fail the domain attach because the domain and
device are incompatible with each other.

This is a soft failure that can be resolved by using a different domain.

Provide a dedicated errno EINVAL from the IOMMU driver during attach that
the reason why the attach failed is because of domain incompatibility.

VFIO can use this to know that the attach is a soft failure and it should
continue searching. Otherwise, the attach will be a hard failure and VFIO
will return the code to userspace.

Update kdocs to add rules of return value to the attach_dev op and APIs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bd56d93c18621104a0fa1b0de31e9b760b81b769.1666042872.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
drivers/iommu/iommu.c
include/linux/iommu.h