linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Introduce PCI_FIXUP

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Date:   Tue, 26 May 2020 23:09:57 +0800
From:   Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        jean-philippe <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        kenneth-lee-2012@...mail.com, Wangzhou <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Introduce PCI_FIXUP_IOMMU

Hi, Christoph

On 2020/5/26 下午10:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 07:49:08PM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
>> Some platform devices appear as PCI but are actually on the AMBA bus,
>> and they need fixup in drivers/pci/quirks.c handling iommu_fwnode.
>> Here introducing PCI_FIXUP_IOMMU, which is called after iommu_fwnode
>> is allocated, instead of reusing PCI_FIXUP_FINAL since it will slow
>> down iommu probing as all devices in fixup final list will be
>> reprocessed.
> Who is going to use this?  I don't see a single user in the series.
We will add iommu fixup in drivers/pci/quirks.c, handling

fwspec->can_stall, which is introduced in

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg94559.html

Unfortunately, the patch does not catch v5.8, so we have to wait.
And we want to check whether this is a right method to solve this issue.

Thanks