[PATCHv3 2/4] ARM: tegra: Add SMMU enabler in AHB

Hiroshi Doyu hdoyu at nvidia.com
Fri Apr 27 02:55:12 EDT 2012


From: Hiroshi DOYU <hdoyu at nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/4] ARM: tegra: Add SMMU enabler in AHB
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:48:26 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <20120427.094826.1181797260264746303.hdoyu at nvidia.com>

> From: Felipe Balbi <balbi at ti.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/4] ARM: tegra: Add SMMU enabler in AHB
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:38:48 +0200
> Message-ID: <20120426203847.GC30690 at arwen.pp.htv.fi>
> 
> > * PGP Signed by an unknown key
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:32:56PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > > On 04/26/2012 02:26 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 01:55:13PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > > >> On 04/25/2012 05:07 AM, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> > > >>> Add extern func, "tegra_ahb_enable_smmu()" to inform AHB that SMMU is
> > > >>> ready.
> > > >>
> > > >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA_3x_SOC
> > > >>> +static int __tegra_ahb_enable_smmu(struct device *dev, void *data)
> > > >> ...
> > > >>> +int tegra_ahb_enable_smmu(void)
> > > >>> +{
> > > >>> +	return driver_for_each_device(&tegra_ahb_driver.driver, NULL, NULL,
> > > >>> +				      __tegra_ahb_enable_smmu);
> > > >>> +}
> > > >>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tegra_ahb_enable_smmu);
> > > >>> +#endif
> > > >>
> > > >> That looks like a neat solution to avoid having a global device object.
> > > > 
> > > > except that it won't work always. If you happen to have two AHB bridges,
> > > > each using a separate smmu but only one smmu is ready, this will set
> > > > SMMU_INIT_DONE on both bridges.
> > > 
> > > There is only 1.
> > 
> > that's why there's a "if you happen to have" statement. If you stick to
> > this "there is only 1" argument, why do you even make this into a
> > platform driver ? Just stick the entire code hidden on the
> > machine_init() code. Drivers a supposed to be able to instantiated
> > multiple times and always work, this method won't work if tegra99999
> > ends up with two AHB bridges/SMMUs
> > 
> > > >> However, if that driver_for_each_device finds no devices, the function
> > > >> still succeeds. That doesn't seem right, and doesn't allow e.g. the SMMU
> > > >> to defer its probe until the AHB driver has completed.
> > > >>
> > > >> Perhaps add a local int variable to tegra_ahb_enable_smmu(), pass the
> > > >> address to __tegra_ahb_enable_smmu, and have it increment the int. Then,
> > > >> after calling driver_for_each_device,:
> > > >>
> > > >> if (!ahb_device_count)
> > > >>     return -EPROBE_DEFER
> > > >> if (WARN_ON(ahb_device_count != 1))
> > > >>     return -EINVAL;
> > > >> return 0;
> > > > 
> > > > that would look, well, weird. Why don't you just different initcall
> > > > leves for this ? Maybe smmu goes into postcore_initcall() and tegra_ahb
> > > > goes into postcore_initcall_sync() ?? then you know that SMMU will be
> > > > ready by the time you call tegra_ahb probe. Well, unless smmu's probe
> > > > fail, but then again, IIUC it won't work anyway...
> > > 
> > > Uggh. I'd rather all these devices just got instantiated from device
> > > tree and relied on deferred probe to manage any ordering, rather than
> > > playing complex games with multiple initcall levels (and in the end
> > > probably having to invent more and more initcall levels to correctly
> > > represent all the dependencies).
> > 
> > then do that... it'll be better than current trickery with
> > driver_for_each_device() and my initcall trickery ;-)
> 
> Then, what about something like the following?
> 
>  static int tegra_ahb_match_by_smmu(struct device *dev, void *data)
>  {
>  	struct tegra_ahb *ahb = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>  	struct device_node *dn = data;
>  
>  	return (ahb->dev->of_node == dn) ? 1 : 0
>  }
>  
>  int tegra_ahb_enable_smmu(struct device_node *ahb)
>  {
>  	struct device *dev;
>  	u32 val;
>  
>  	dev = driver_find_device(&tegra_ahb_driver.driver, NULL, ahb,
>  				 tegra_ahb_match_by_smmu);
>  	if (!dev)
>  		return -ENODEV;

+		return -EPROBE_DEFER

Maybe this is better(?).

>  
>  	val = gizmo_readl(ahb, AHB_ARBITRATION_XBAR_CTRL);
>  	val |= AHB_ARBITRATION_XBAR_CTRL_SMMU_INIT_DONE;
>  	gizmo_writel(ahb, val, AHB_ARBITRATION_XBAR_CTRL);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(tegra_ahb_enable_smmu);
> 
> 	Modified arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi
> index 655bc47..28f9138 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi
> @@ -242,5 +242,6 @@
>  	smmu {
>  		compatible = "nvidia,tegra30-smmu";
>  		mc = <&mc>;
> +		ahb = <&ahb>;
>  	};
>  };



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