[PATCH 2/2] ARM: IOMMU: Tegra30: Add iommu_ops for SMMU driver

Hiroshi Doyu hdoyu at nvidia.com
Wed Jan 25 02:39:32 EST 2012


From: "joro at 8bytes.org" <joro at 8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: IOMMU: Tegra30: Add iommu_ops for SMMU driver
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:25:21 +0100
Message-ID: <20120124142521.GE6269 at 8bytes.org>

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:46:01PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 02:41:21PM +0100, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> > > Actually I really like the concept of this "domain" now, which hides
> > > the H/W hierarchy from users.
> > > 
> > > But in Tegra SMMU/GART case, there's a single one IOMMU device in the
> > > system. Keeping a iommu device list in a domain and iterating iommu
> > > device list in each iommu_ops seem to be so nice, but I'm afraid that
> > > this may be a bit too much when one already knows that there's only
> > > one IOMMU device in the system.
> > >
> > > If there's no actual problem for 1-1 mapping between IOMMU H/Ws and
> > > domains, I think that it may not so bad to keep the original code(1-1)
> > > for GART and SMMU. What do you think?
> > 
> > I think it boils down to "extensability". If you can truly/fully
> > guarantee that there will *always* be a single IOMMU on all upcoming
> > Tegras, then it's really overkill.
> > 
> > But if there's even a remote possibility of the HW being changed and you
> > end up with more IOMMUs, things start to feel necessary for the sake of
> > making it easy to extend.
> 
> Right. But I am fine with the logic as-is when there is only one SMMU in
> the system. But please also change the IOMMU driver so that it really
> only initializes a single SMMU. When boards pop up with more than one
> you we notice that assumption in the code again and are reminded to
> change it.

Fixed.

I'll revisit 4MB pagesize support and the above multiple iommu device
support in a domain later.

Attached the update patch.
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