[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v5 10/19] vfio: Add infrastructure for bind_iommufd from userspace

[Liu, Yi L]

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 8:30 PM
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 02:35:25AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> 
> > > And the commit message is sort of out of sync with the patch, more like:
> > >
> > > vfio: Pass the pt_id as an argument to vfio_iommufd_bind()
> > >
> > > To support binding the cdev the pt_id must come from userspace
> instead
> > > of being forced to the compat_ioas_id.
> > >
> >
> > Got it. not only pt_id, also dev_id. 😊
> 
> Maybe dev_id should be read back from the iommufd_device pointer in
> the vfio_device. It is trivially stored in that memory already

Yes. this somehow gives me a doubt. Why iommufd_device_bind() returns
both iommufd_device pointer and the id back as id is already stored in the
iommufd_device. Is it?

Regards,
Yi Liu