[PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu: Play nice on non-ARM/SMMU systems

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Nov 10 09:25:39 PST 2014


On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:26:18PM +0000, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> 
> Currently the driver registers IOMMU bus operations for all busses even
> if no ARM SMMU is present on a system. Depending on the driver probing
> order this prevents the driver for the real IOMMU to register itself as
> the bus-wide IOMMU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> index 60558f794922..e154826d8b1d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> @@ -2072,8 +2072,20 @@ static struct platform_driver arm_smmu_driver = {
>  
>  static int __init arm_smmu_init(void)
>  {
> +	struct device_node *np;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Play nice with systems that don't have an ARM SMMU by checking that
> +	 * an ARM SMMU exists in the system before proceeding with the driver
> +	 * and IOMMU bus operation registration.
> +	 */
> +	np = of_find_matching_node(NULL, arm_smmu_of_match);
> +	if (!np)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	of_node_put(np);
> +

Hopefully, this will be solved shortly by the of_iommu_configure series I've
been dragging my feet with recently. However, since that's not done yet,
this looks like the best thing for now, even if it's a bit of a bodge.

Have you checked/updated other IOMMMU drivers too?

Will



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