[PATCH 6/6] documentation/iommu: Update description of ARM System MMU binding

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Oct 30 21:17:15 EDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 09:13:15PM +0100, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> This patch adds descriptions fore new properties of device tree
> binding for the ARM SMMU architecture. These properties control
> arm-smmu driver options.
> 
> Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann at calxeda.com>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt         |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> index e34c6cd..de88cf9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> @@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ conditions.
>                    from the mmu-masters towards memory) node for this
>                    SMMU.
>  
> +- arm,smmu-isolate-devices : Enable device isolation for all masters
> +                             of this SMMU. Ie. each master will be
> +                             attached to its own iommu domain.
> +
> +- arm,smmu-secure-config-access : Enable proper handling of buggy
> +                                  implementations that always use
> +                                  secure access to SMMU configuration
> +                                  registers. In this case non-secure
> +                                  aliases of secure registers have to
> +                                  be used during SMMU configuration.

Why are you using the "arm" vendor prefix for the secure config access
stuff? Wouldn't it make more sense to use "calxeda", just in case somebody
else finds a different way to wire things up in this regard?

Will



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