[PATCH v6 08/10] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Update comment about STE liveness

Michael Shavit mshavit at google.com
Wed Aug 16 06:18:48 PDT 2023


Update the comment to reflect the fact that the STE is not always
installed. arm_smmu_domain_finalise_s1 intentionnaly calls
arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc while the STE is not installed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Shavit <mshavit at google.com>
---

Changes in v6:
- New commit

 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
index de87150cd0242..3c8bfeca89d5c 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ int arm_smmu_write_ctx_desc(struct arm_smmu_master *master, int ssid,
 		cdptr[3] = cpu_to_le64(cd->mair);
 
 		/*
-		 * STE is live, and the SMMU might read dwords of this CD in any
+		 * STE may be live, and the SMMU might read dwords of this CD in any
 		 * order. Ensure that it observes valid values before reading
 		 * V=1.
 		 */
-- 
2.41.0.694.ge786442a9b-goog




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