[PATCH 1/2] iommu/mediatek-v1: Alloc building as module

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Mar 25 17:42:09 GMT 2021


^^Nit: presumably you meant "Allow" in the subject.

On 2021-03-25 17:16, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 01:58:00PM +0800, Yong Wu wrote:
>> This patch only adds support for building the IOMMU-v1 driver as module.
>> Correspondingly switch the config to tristate.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu at mediatek.com>
>> ---
>> rebase on v5.12-rc2.
>> ---
>>   drivers/iommu/Kconfig        | 2 +-
>>   drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu_v1.c | 9 ++++-----
>>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Both of these patches look fine to me, but you probably need to check
> the setting of MODULE_OWNER after:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/f4de29d8330981301c1935e667b507254a2691ae.1616157612.git.robin.murphy@arm.com

Right, furthermore I would rather expect these patches on their own to 
hit the problem that my patch tries to avoid - where since mtk_iommu_ops 
is const, the current version of iommu_device_set_ops() is liable to 
blow up trying to write to rodata.

In fact I do wonder a little why that wasn't happening already - maybe 
the compiler is clever enough to tell that the assignment is redundant 
when THIS_MODULE == 0, and elides it :/

Robin.



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