[PATCH 1/2] ARM: IOMMU: Tegra20: Add iommu_ops for GART driver
Hiroshi Doyu
hdoyu at nvidia.com
Wed Jan 25 02:40:20 EST 2012
Hi Joerg,
From: Joerg Roedel <joro at 8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: IOMMU: Tegra20: Add iommu_ops for GART driver
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:48 +0100
Message-ID: <20120123150048.GB6269 at 8bytes.org>
> Hi,
>
> first, some questions about the GART on your platform.
>
> 1) How many GARTs are usually implemented? One GART per device or is
> there a single GART covering all devices, or a mix of both?
There's a single GART in the system which takes care of all devices.
> 2) Are devices allowed to DMA outside of the remappable range or will
> this fail?
Fail.
>
> Besides that I think IOMMU-API is not yet fully ready for GART-like
> drivers like this one. But I will merge it anyway to get things moving.
> But please answer or fix my objections first.
>
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:11:48AM +0200, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> > +static void gart_iommu_domain_destroy(struct iommu_domain *domain)
> > +{
> > + struct gart_device *gart = domain->priv;
> > +
> > + spin_lock(&gart->client_lock);
> > + if (!list_empty(&gart->client)) {
> > + struct gart_client *c;
> > +
> > + list_for_each_entry(c, &gart->client, list)
> > + dev_err(gart->dev,
> > + "%s is still attached\n", dev_name(c->dev));
> > + }
> > + spin_unlock(&gart->client_lock);
>
> gart needs a NULL check. When you create a domain and immediatly destroy
> it without ever attaching a device this code will dereference a NULL
> pointer.
Fixed.
> As a general improvement I suggest that you introduce a gart_domain
> structure and store it in domain->priv (assigned in domain_init) instead
> of using the hardware descriptor.
>
> > +static int gart_iommu_attach_dev(struct iommu_domain *domain,
> > + struct device *dev)
> > +{
> > + struct gart_device *gart;
> > + struct gart_client *client, *c;
> > + int err = 0;
> > +
> > + gart = dev_get_drvdata(dev->parent);
> > + if (!gart)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + domain->priv = gart;
>
> What happens when devices behind different GARTs are assigned to the
> same domain? domain->priv can only hold a pointer to one hardware GART.
> This can be solved by a 'struct gart_domain' holding a linked list to
> all gart_devices in this domain.
As discussed in SMMU thread, I'll revisit the above multiple iommu
device support later.
Attached the update patch.
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