[PATCH v8 1/5] Doc: iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add workaround for HiSilicon erratum 161010801

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Oct 5 15:24:16 PDT 2017


On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:32:37PM +0100, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
> From: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>
> 
> The HiSilicon erratum 161010801 describes the limitation of HiSilicon
> platforms hip06/hip07 to support the SMMU mappings for MSI transactions.
> 
> On these platforms, GICv3 ITS translator is presented with the deviceID
> by extending the MSI payload data to 64 bits to include the deviceID.
> Hence, the PCIe controller on this platforms has to differentiate the MSI
> payload against other DMA payload and has to modify the MSI payload.
> This basically makes it difficult for this platforms to have a SMMU
> translation for MSI.
> 
> This patch adds a compatible string to implement this errata for
> HiSilicon Hi161x SMMUv3 model on hip06/hip07 platforms.
> 
> Also, the arm64 silicon errata is updated with this same erratum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>
> [Shameer: Modified to use compatible string for errata]
> Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi at huawei.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt                  | 1 +
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu-v3.txt | 9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>



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