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Cases like VFIO wish to attach a device to an existing domain that was not allocated specifically from the device. This raises a condition where the IOMMU driver can fail the domain attach because the domain and device are incompatible with each other. This is a soft failure that can be resolved by using a different domain. Provide a dedicated errno EINVAL from the IOMMU driver during attach that the reason why the attach failed is because of domain incompatibility. VFIO can use this to know that the attach is a soft failure and it should continue searching. Otherwise, the attach will be a hard failure and VFIO will return the code to userspace. Update kdocs to add rules of return value to the attach_dev op and APIs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bd56d93c18621104a0fa1b0de31e9b760b81b769.1666042872.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.