On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:27:00AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 4/25/22 09:40, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote: > > The problem is that we'd have to request the device driver to stop DMA > > before we can destroy the context and free the PASID. We did consider > > doing this in the release() MMU notifier, but there were concerns about > > blocking mmput() for too long (for example > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/4d68da96-0ad5-b412-5987-2f7a6aa79...@amd.com/ > > though I think there was a more recent discussion). We also need to drain > > the PRI and fault queues to get rid of all references to that PASID. > > Is the concern truly about blocking mmput() itself? Or, is it about > releasing the resources associated with the mm?
The latter I think, this one was about releasing pages as fast as possible if the process is picked by the OOM killer. Thanks, Jean _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
