On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 10:19 -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> Hi Christoph
> 
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 08:43:51AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Can you please lift the untrusted flag into struct device?  It really
> > isn't a PCI specific concept, and we should not have code poking into
> > pci_dev all over the iommu code.
> 
> Just for clarification: All IOMMU's today mostly pertain to only PCI devices
> and for devices that aren't PCI like HPET for instance we give a PCI
> identifier. Facilities like ATS for instance require the platform to have 
> an IOMMU.
> 
> what additional problems does moving this to struct device solve?

Even the Intel IOMMU supports ACPI devices for which there is no struct
pci_dev; only a B/D/F in the ANDD record indicating which entry in the
context table to use.

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