[PATCH v6 3/3] iommu/arm-smmu-v3:Enable ACPI based HiSilicon erratum 161010801

[John Garry]

On 23/08/2017 14:24, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:17:24PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum
>>>> <shameerali.kolothum.thodi at huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>>>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> Please can you also add a devicetree binding with corresponding
>>>> documentation to enable this workaround on non-ACPI based systems too?
>>>> It should be straightforward if you update the arm_smmu_options table.
>>>
>>> As I mentioned before, devicetree was a lower priority and we would definitely
>>> submit patch to support that. Even if we update the arm_smmu_options table
>>> with DT binding, the generic function to retrieve the MSI address regions only
>>> works on ACPI/IORT case now.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> Can you confirm your stance on supporting this workaround for DT as well as
>> ACPI?
>>
>> For us, we now only "officially" support ACPI FW, and DT support at this
>> point is patchy/limited. To me, adding DT support is just more errata
>> workaround code to maintain with little useful gain.
>
> I basically don't like the idea of a driver that only works for one of
> ACPI or DT yet claims to support both. I'm less fussed about functionality
> differences (feature X is only available with firmware Y), but not working
> around a hardware erratum that we know about is just lazy.
>
> So I'd prefer that we handle this in both cases, or blacklist affected
> devices when booting with DT. Continuing as though there isn't an erratum
> is the worst thing we can do.

OK, seems reasonable.

We would consider blacklisting the device, where/how to do is the question.

So the errata is in the GICv3 ITS/PCI host controller, and we just use 
the in-between SMMU (driver) to provide the workaround. So my initial 
impression is that the PCI host controller would have to be blacklisted 
IFF behind an IOMMU for DT firmware in pcie-hisi.c or pci quirks 
framework. How does it sound?

Please also note that in our SoC we have other devices behind the same 
SMMU, like storage controller, which are not affected or related to the 
Errata.

BTW, ignoring DT support, are you happy with this patchset?

Regards,
John

>
> Will
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