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

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Message-ID: <20200527090142.GC179718@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 11:01:42 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        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>,
        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

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:09:57PM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
> 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.

We can't take new apis without a real user, so please submit them all at
once.

thanks,

greg k-h