Re: [PATCH 02/13] iommu: Move bus setup to IOMMU device registration

From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>, joro@8bytes.org, will@kernel.org
Cc: jean-philippe@linaro.org, mjrosato@linux.ibm.com,
	sven@svenpeter.dev, zhang.lyra@gmail.com, robdclark@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	thierry.reding@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com, baolu.lu@linux.intel.com,
	yong.wu@mediatek.com, m.szyprowski@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] iommu: Move bus setup to IOMMU device registration
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:13:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8175f6b1-5170-f950-f3ed-7f445410a2c6@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f693a3a-bbab-237a-af9a-4395e501a5b2@arm.com>

On 2022/4/19 15:20, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2022-04-19 00:37, Lu Baolu wrote:
>> On 2022/4/19 6:09, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>> On 2022-04-16 01:04, Lu Baolu wrote:
>>>> On 2022/4/14 20:42, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>>>> @@ -1883,27 +1900,12 @@ static int iommu_bus_init(struct bus_type 
>>>>> *bus)
>>>>>    */
>>>>>   int bus_set_iommu(struct bus_type *bus, const struct iommu_ops *ops)
>>>>>   {
>>>>> -    int err;
>>>>> -
>>>>> -    if (ops == NULL) {
>>>>> -        bus->iommu_ops = NULL;
>>>>> -        return 0;
>>>>> -    }
>>>>> -
>>>>> -    if (bus->iommu_ops != NULL)
>>>>> +    if (bus->iommu_ops && ops && bus->iommu_ops != ops)
>>>>>           return -EBUSY;
>>>>>       bus->iommu_ops = ops;
>>>>
>>>> Do we still need to keep above lines in bus_set_iommu()?
>>>
>>> It preserves the existing behaviour until each callsite and its 
>>> associated error handling are removed later on, which seems like as 
>>> good a thing to do as any. Since I'm already relaxing 
>>> iommu_device_register() to a warn-but-continue behaviour while it 
>>> keeps the bus ops on life-support internally, I figured not changing 
>>> too much at once would make it easier to bisect any potential issues 
>>> arising from this first step.
>>
>> Fair enough. Thank you for the explanation.
>>
>> Do you have a public tree that I could pull these patches and try them
>> on an Intel hardware? Or perhaps you have done this? I like the whole
>> idea of this series, but it's better to try it with a real hardware.
> 
> I haven't bothered with separate branches since there's so many 
> different pieces in-flight, but my complete (unstable) development 
> branch can be found here:
> 
> https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-rm/-/commits/iommu/bus
> 
> For now I'd recommend winding the head back to "iommu: Clean up 
> bus_set_iommu()" for testing - some of the patches above that have 
> already been posted and picked up by their respective subsystems, but 
> others are incomplete and barely compile-tested. I'll probably rearrange 
> it later this week to better reflect what's happened so far.

Okay, thanks for sharing.

Best regards,
baolu

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