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From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	iommu <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
	Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] perf/smmuv3: Add a MODULE_SOFTDEP() to indicate dependency on SMMU
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:12:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <67e0859b-2633-3516-527f-57557e210fa1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127113258.1421-3-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>

On 2021-01-27 11:32, Zhen Lei wrote:
> The MODULE_SOFTDEP() gives user space a hint of the loading sequence. And
> when command "modprobe arm_smmuv3_pmu" is executed, the arm_smmu_v3.ko is
> automatically loaded in advance.

Why do we need this? If probe order doesn't matter when both drivers are 
built-in, why should module load order?

TBH I'm not sure why we even have a Kconfig dependency on ARM_SMMU_V3, 
given that the drivers operate completely independently :/

Robin.

> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
> ---
>   drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c
> index e5e505a0804fe53..9a305ac51208cd2 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c
> @@ -950,6 +950,7 @@ static void __exit arm_smmu_pmu_exit(void)
>   module_exit(arm_smmu_pmu_exit);
>   
>   MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMU driver for ARM SMMUv3 Performance Monitors Extension");
> +MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: arm_smmu_v3");
>   MODULE_AUTHOR("Neil Leeder <nleeder@codeaurora.org>");
>   MODULE_AUTHOR("Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>");
>   MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> 

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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-27 11:32 [PATCH v3 0/3] perf/smmuv3: Don't reserve the PMCG register spaces Zhen Lei
2021-01-27 11:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Zhen Lei
2021-01-29 15:06   ` Robin Murphy
2021-01-30  2:23     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-01-27 11:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] perf/smmuv3: Add a MODULE_SOFTDEP() to indicate dependency on SMMU Zhen Lei
2021-01-29 15:12   ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2021-01-29 15:34     ` John Garry
2021-01-29 17:03       ` Robin Murphy
2021-01-30  1:34         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-01-27 11:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Reserving the entire SMMU register space Zhen Lei
2021-01-29 15:27   ` Robin Murphy
2021-01-30  1:54     ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-02-01 11:44       ` Robin Murphy
2021-02-01 12:00         ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-01-28 20:31 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] perf/smmuv3: Don't reserve the PMCG register spaces Will Deacon
2021-01-29 13:15   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)

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