iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs
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.comSuggested-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>
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