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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] drivers/bus: Split Arm CCI driver
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:51:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180214115118.GD2992@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f62d3a76-9ee0-43a5-c585-fcebce52e800@arm.com>

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:07:53PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Punit,
> 
> On 07/02/18 12:22, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> [...]
> >>-static void __iomem *cci_ctrl_base;
> >>+void __iomem *cci_ctrl_base __ro_after_init;
> >
> >Initially I wondered if cci_ctrl_base gets used in the pmu driver before
> >it's initialised. But as it gets set in early_initcall() that looks to
> >be fine.
> 
> In fact it's even more robust than initcall ordering, since the PMU device
> will only be created at all via cci_platform_probe(), thus cci_init() is
> guaranteed to have run successfully before the PMU driver probe can ever
> touch anything.

Could you hijack the platform data at this point by passing an of_dev_auxdata
to of_platform_populate and then use that to pass the __iomem address to the
PMU driver?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-14 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-05 18:39 [PATCH 0/5] Arm interconnect PMU driver tidyup Robin Murphy
2018-02-05 18:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivers/bus: Move Arm CCN PMU driver Robin Murphy
2018-02-05 18:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] drivers/bus: Split Arm CCI driver Robin Murphy
2018-02-07 12:22   ` Punit Agrawal
2018-02-07 13:07     ` Robin Murphy
2018-02-14 11:51       ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-02-14 12:07         ` Robin Murphy
2018-02-14 14:28         ` Robin Murphy
2018-02-15 13:01           ` Will Deacon
2018-02-15 16:38             ` Robin Murphy
2018-02-05 18:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] perf/arm-cci: Simplify CPU hotplug Robin Murphy
2018-02-05 18:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] bus/arm-cci: Streamline devicetree handling a bit Robin Murphy
2018-02-05 18:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] perf/arm-cci: Clean up model discovery Robin Murphy
2018-02-15 13:00 ` [PATCH 0/5] Arm interconnect PMU driver tidyup Will Deacon

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