linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] iommu/of: Drop early initialisation hooks

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:26:26 +0100
From:   Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:     JeffyChen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     jcliang@...omium.org, robin.murphy@....com, tfiga@...omium.org,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] iommu/of: Drop early initialisation hooks

Hi Jeffy,

On 2018-01-11 12:14, JeffyChen wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On 01/11/2018 05:40 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> Hi Jeffy,
>>
>> On 2018-01-11 09:22, Jeffy Chen wrote:
>>> With the probe-deferral mechanism, early initialisation hooks are no
>>> longer needed.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>   drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c  |  2 +-
>>>   drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c     | 12 ++++++------
>>>   drivers/iommu/exynos-iommu.c |  2 +-
>>
>> For Exynos IOMMU:
>> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
>>
>> IPMMU and MSM IOMMU are no longer multi-platform safe after this patch.
>> It breaks them in the same way as my commit 928055a01b3f ("iommu/exynos:
>> Remove custom platform device registration code") broke Exynos IOMMU.
>>
>> You need a similar fix for them:
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg627648.html
>
> hmmm, right, i did saw this fix in the rockchip iommu driver too.
>
> and there're also some other iommu drivers put bus_set_iommu in their 
> probe() to avoid that.
>
> maybe we can do it in the iommu framework?
>
> for example:
> 1/ add a bus type member to struct iommu_device
> 2/ and a iommu_device_set_bus()
> 3/ do the bus_set_iommu stuff in iommu_device_register()
> 4/ undo bus_set_iommu in iommu_device_unregister()

Frankly, in case the device-tree based systems bus_set_iommu()
should not be needed at all. However for some legacy reasons it
is still required by a few bits of code (at least it was needed
some time ago). Probably it would be best if this is finally
resolved.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland