Virtualization - Mar 2021 - [PATCH 15/17] iommu: remove DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:44:52AM +0100, Auger Eric
wrote:
> As mentionned by Robin, there are series planning to use
> DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING to get info about the nested caps of the iommu (ARM
> and Intel):
> 
> [Patch v8 00/10] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs
> patches 1, 2, 3
> 
> Is the plan to introduce a new domain_get_nesting_info ops then?
The plan as usual would be to add it the series adding that support.
Not sure what the merge plans are - if the series is ready to be
merged I could rebase on top of it, otherwise that series will need
to add the method.

Hi Christoph,

On 3/14/21 4:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:44:52AM +0100, Auger Eric wrote:
>> As mentionned by Robin, there are series planning to use
>> DOMAIN_ATTR_NESTING to get info about the nested caps of the iommu (ARM
>> and Intel):
>>
>> [Patch v8 00/10] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs
>> patches 1, 2, 3
>>
>> Is the plan to introduce a new domain_get_nesting_info ops then?
> 
> The plan as usual would be to add it the series adding that support.
> Not sure what the merge plans are - if the series is ready to be
> merged I could rebase on top of it, otherwise that series will need
> to add the method.
OK I think your series may be upstreamed first.

Thanks

Eric
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