Re: [PATCH v7 1/8] genirq/msi: Add a new MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING flag

From	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v7 1/8] genirq/msi: Add a new MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING flag
Date	2016-04-22 17:50 +0200
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Eric Auger wrote:
> Robin,
> On 04/22/2016 01:02 PM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > On 19/04/16 18:13, Eric Auger wrote:
> >> Let's introduce a new msi_domain_info flag value, MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING
> >> meant to tell the domain supports IRQ REMAPPING, also known as Interrupt
> >> Translation Service. On Intel HW this IRQ remapping capability is
> >> abstracted on IOMMU side while on ARM it is abstracted on MSI controller
> >> side. This flag will be used to know whether the MSI passthrough is
> >> safe.
> > 
> > Perhaps a nitpick, but given the earlier confusion about what the IOMMU
> > flag actually meant this prompts me to wonder if it's worth adjusting
> > the general terminology before we propagate it further. What I think we
> > actually care about is that one thing or the other "provides MSI
> > isolation" rather than "supports MSI remapping", since the latter is all
> > to easy to misinterpret the way we did in the SMMU drivers.
> 
> The only concern I have is https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/18/283 attempts
> to define a PCI bus flag dubbed PCI_BUS_FLAGS_MSI_REMAP combining the
> iommu & msi layer info. In that sense x86 people may not be keen of
> having different terminaologies. Anyway I will follow the consensus, if any.

Yes, please keep that consistent. It makes 'grep' much more conveniant.

Thanks,

	tglx

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[PATCH v7 1/8] genirq/msi: Add a new MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING flag Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> - 2016-04-19 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v7 1/8] genirq/msi: Add a new MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING flag Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> - 2016-04-22 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 1/8] genirq/msi: Add a new MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING flag Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> - 2016-04-22 14:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v7 1/8] genirq/msi: Add a new MSI_FLAG_IRQ_REMAPPING  flag Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-22 17:50 +0200

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