linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] ACPI/IORT: Ignore all errors except EPROBE

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Message-ID: <68bc9be5-22df-e7af-3fcd-182e935e681c@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Mon, 29 May 2017 10:36:42 +0530
From:   Sricharan R <sricharan@...eaurora.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] ACPI/IORT: Ignore all errors except EPROBE_DEFER

Hi Rafael,

On 5/28/2017 12:48 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, May 27, 2017 07:17:42 PM Sricharan R wrote:
>> While deferring the probe of IOMMU masters, xlate and
>> add_device callbacks called from iort_iommu_configure
>> can pass back error values like -ENODEV, which means
>> the IOMMU cannot be connected with that master for real
>> reasons. Before the IOMMU probe deferral, all such errors
>> were ignored. Now all those errors are propagated back,
>> killing the master's probe for such errors. Instead ignore
>> all the errors except EPROBE_DEFER, which is the only one
>> of concern and let the master work without IOMMU, thus
>> restoring the old behavior. Also make explicit that
>> acpi_dma_configure handles only -EPROBE_DEFER from
>> iort_iommu_configure.
>>
>> Fixes: 5a1bb638d567 ("drivers: acpi: Handle IOMMU lookup failure with deferred probing or error")
>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <sricharan@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c | 6 ++++++
>>  drivers/acpi/scan.c       | 4 ++--
>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
>> index c5fecf9..16e101f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
>> @@ -782,6 +782,12 @@ const struct iommu_ops *iort_iommu_configure(struct device *dev)
>>  	if (err)
>>  		ops = ERR_PTR(err);
>>  
>> +	/* Ignore all other errors apart from EPROBE_DEFER */
>> +	if (IS_ERR(ops) && (PTR_ERR(ops) != -EPROBE_DEFER)) {
>> +		dev_dbg(dev, "Adding to IOMMU failed: %ld\n", PTR_ERR(ops));
>> +		ops = NULL;
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	return ops;
>>  }
>>  
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
>> index e39ec7b..3a10d757 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
>> @@ -1371,8 +1371,8 @@ int acpi_dma_configure(struct device *dev, enum dev_dma_attr attr)
>>  	iort_set_dma_mask(dev);
>>  
>>  	iommu = iort_iommu_configure(dev);
>> -	if (IS_ERR(iommu))
>> -		return PTR_ERR(iommu);
>> +	if (IS_ERR(iommu) && PTR_ERR(iommu) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>> +		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
>>  
>>  	size = max(dev->coherent_dma_mask, dev->coherent_dma_mask + 1);
>>  	/*
>>
> 
> ACK for the scan.c change and I'm assuming this to go in via ARM64.
> 

Thanks for the ACK, should go through the IOMMU tree, since this fixes the IOMMU probe deferral
that got merged through it.

Regards,
 Sricharan

> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 
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