linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/22] iommu: Propagate error in add_iommu

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:55:28 +0200
From:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:	djkurtz@...omium.org, Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@...dia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>, jroedel@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/22] iommu: Propagate error in add_iommu_group

Hi Joerg,

Am Montag, 29. Juni 2015, 16:06:37 schrieb Joerg Roedel:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:28:40AM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > The Rockchip iommu uses bus_set_ops to set its iommu-ops for the platform
> > bus and currently returns -ENODEV if it encounters a platform_devices that
> > does not have an iommu. As add_iommu_group ignored these returns
> > till now this worked, but of course starts to fail now.
> > 
> > All two invocations of the add_device callback ignored (or still ignore)
> > the return value so I've come with the following small patch to fix the
> > breakage that now exists in the 4.2 tree.
> > 
> > There is probably a better solution possible in the longer term, likely
> > similar to what Samsung does, but I'm not sure yet how this would work
> > with our drm device that needs an iommu mapping without having an
> > iommu (the iommus being attached to the crtc-components).
> 
> Btw, if you want to test the fix too, here is the link:
> 
> 	http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2015-June/013508.html

yep, works like a charm and fixes the issue. So if helpful:
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>


Thanks
Heiko
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