3.16rc3 multiplatform, Armada 370 and IOMMU: unbootable kernel

[Paolo Pisati]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Ezequiel Garcia,
>
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 20:37:58 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>
>> It seems bus_register_notifier() is been called for platform and pci devices
>> with the *same* notifier block. Haven't looked close enough, but you mentioned
>> that could cause trouble?
>>
>> This patch fixes the issue here:
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
>> index 477202f..2bdc323 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
>> @@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ static struct notifier_block mvebu_hwcc_nb = {
>>       .notifier_call = mvebu_hwcc_notifier,
>>  };
>>
>> +static struct notifier_block mvebu_hwcc_pci_nb = {
>> +     .notifier_call = mvebu_hwcc_notifier,
>> +};
>> +
>>  static void __init armada_370_coherency_init(struct device_node *np)
>>  {
>>       struct resource res;
>> @@ -427,7 +431,7 @@ static int __init coherency_pci_init(void)
>>  {
>>       if (coherency_available())
>>               bus_register_notifier(&pci_bus_type,
>> -                                    &mvebu_hwcc_nb);
>> +                                    &mvebu_hwcc_pci_nb);
>>       return 0;
>>  }
>>
>> Paolo, can you apply it and confirm it fixes the problem?
>>
>> Greg, can you confirm using the same notifier block pointer
>> for two different bus types makes the bus notifier go nuts?
>
> Looking at how notifier_chain_register() is implemented (which gets
> called by bus_register_notifier() ->
> blocking_notifier_chain_register()), I indeed don't see how a single
> 'struct notifier_block' can be registered on multiple notifier chains,
> so I believe your patch is correct.
>

yes, i confim this patch fixes my issue, thanks!

-- 
bye,
p.