From: <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>,
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
"Gavin Shan" <gshan@redhat.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
"Jeremy Linton" <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
Sami Mujawar <sami.mujawar@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coco: guest: arm64: Update ARM CCA guest driver
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 19:24:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68e86e45599bc_199281005d@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251009113557.000053e6@huawei.com>
Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:43:49 +0530
> Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> writes:
> >
> > > Make preparatory updates to the ARM CCA guest driver:
> > >
> > > - Switch from using a platform device to a faux device (based on
> > > feedback in [1])
> > > - Rename the device from `arm-cca-dev` to `arm-rsi-dev`, so that the
> > > host driver can register an equivalent `arm-rmi-dev`
> > >
> > > These changes are purely structural and introduce no new functionality.
> > > Subsequent patches will extend this driver to add guest device
> > > assignment support.
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025073035-bulginess-rematch-b92e@gregkh
> > >
> >
> > I noticed that, this will break autoloading of the driver.
>
> Ah indeed. You'd need to arrange for the arch code to call the init()
> directly (possibly arch_initcall() as before or maybe directly from
> arm64_rsi_init), which makes it tricky to do in a module as there
> is nothing to kick off module autoloading. You could kick that off
> explicitly but that's a bit ugly.
Does ARM64 not have the equivalent of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(x86cpu, ...)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-10 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-08 13:27 [PATCH] coco: guest: arm64: Update ARM CCA guest driver Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2025-10-09 7:13 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2025-10-09 10:35 ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-10-10 2:24 ` dan.j.williams [this message]
2025-10-10 11:48 ` Jeremy Linton
2025-10-09 10:25 ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-10-10 14:16 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-10 15:23 ` Jeremy Linton
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