Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] Revert "iommu/arm-smmu: Make arm-smmu-v3 explicitly non-modular"

John Garry
2019-11-08T17:25:14Z

On 08/11/2019 16:47, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 04:44:25PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> On 08/11/2019 16:17, John Garry wrote:
>>> On 08/11/2019 15:16, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, arm_smmu_of_match);
>>>
>>> Hi Will,
>>>
>>>>   static struct platform_driver arm_smmu_driver = {
>>>>       .driver    = {
>>>>           .name        = "arm-smmu-v3",
>>>>           .of_match_table    = of_match_ptr(arm_smmu_of_match),
>>>> -        .suppress_bind_attrs = true,
>>>
>>> Does this mean that we can now manually unbind this driver from the SMMU
>>> device?
>>>
>>> Seems dangerous. Here's what happens for me:
>>>
>>> root@ubuntu:/sys# cd ./bus/platform/drivers/arm-smmu-v3
>>> ind @ubuntu:/sys/bus/platform/drivers/arm-smmu-v3# echo
>>> arm-smmu-v3.0.auto > unbind
>>> [   77.580351] hisi_sas_v2_hw HISI0162:01: CQE_AXI_W_ERR (0x800) found!
>>> ho [   78.635473] platform arm-smmu-v3.0.auto: CMD_SYNC timeout at
>>> 0x00000146 [hwprod 0x00000146, hwcons 0x00000000]
>>>
>>>>       },
>>>>       .probe    = arm_smmu_device_probe,
>>>> +    .remove    = arm_smmu_device_remove,
>>>>       .shutdown = arm_smmu_device_shutdown,
>>>>   };
>>>> -builtin_platform_driver(arm_smmu_driver);
>>>> +module_platform_driver(arm_smmu_driver);
>>>> +
>>
>> BTW, it now looks like it was your v1 series I was testing there, on your
>> branch iommu/module. It would be helpful to update for ease of testing.
>

Hi Will,

> Yes, sorry about that. I'll update it now (although I'm not sure it will
> help with this -- I was going to see what happens with other devices such
> as the intel-iommu or storage controllers)

So I tried your v2 series for this - it has the same issue, as I
anticipated.

It seems that some iommu drivers do call iommu_device_register(), so
maybe a decent reference. Or simply stop the driver being unbound.

Cheers,
John