Re: [PATCH] iommu: Remove stub functions for !CONFIG_IOMMU_API

["Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 07:56:39AM -0400, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:
> > Remove most of the stub functions because they are only
> > allowed to use when CONFIG_IOMMU_API is set anyway. This
> > will catch missing 'select' entries in kconfig at compile
> > time already.
> 
> I'm not sure we want this; think about a generic framework/driver that
> uses the IOMMU API only if the underlying hardware has an IOMMU and
> otherwise will skip calling the IOMMU API altogether (e.g. this is
> where remoteproc is headed).

CONFIG_IOMMU_API would just compile in drivers/iommu/iommu.c to provide
the base-functionality of the api. You don't need to select and IOMMU
driver in the first place if your board doesn't have one.

On the other side this change makes it easy for a developer to find
kconfig problems already at compile time when he/she uses iommu-api
functions without selecting the api.

> With this patch, such generic code will have to "select IOMMU_API"
> unconditionally, or it won't build when the hardware doesn't have an
> IOMMU (e.g. the DSP in at least several of the DaVinci SoC isn't
> behind an IOMMU). But doing so is a bit wasteful if there's no IOMMU
> hardware...

Isn't the abstraction that the drivers use the dma-api? There should be
an implementation that doesn't require the iommu-api for such devices,
no?

	Joerg

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