From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
To: Rahul Singh <Rahul.Singh@arm.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@arm.com>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] xen/arm: Remove support for MSI on SMMUv3
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:11:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5689cfe7-ca16-6540-d394-00d3f60f4f5f@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D79D7DC5-649D-4517-A8CA-B13632595DA5@arm.com>
Hi Rahul,
On 02/12/2020 13:12, Rahul Singh wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
>
>> On 2 Dec 2020, at 12:40 am, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Rahul Singh wrote:
>>>> XEN does not support MSI on ARM platforms, therefore remove the MSI
>>>> support from SMMUv3 driver.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rahul Singh <rahul.singh@arm.com>
>>>
>>> I wonder if it makes sense to #ifdef CONFIG_MSI this code instead of
>>> removing it completely.
>>
>> One more thought: could this patch be achieved by reverting
>> 166bdbd23161160f2abcea70621adba179050bee ? If this patch could be done
>> by a couple of revert, it would be great to say it in the commit
>> message.
>>
> Ok will add in next version.
>
>>
>>> In the past, we tried to keep the entire file as textually similar to
>>> the original Linux driver as possible to make it easier to backport
>>> features and fixes. So, in this case we would probably not even used an
>>> #ifdef but maybe something like:
>>>
>>> if (/* msi_enabled */ 0)
>>> return;
>>>
>>> at the beginning of arm_smmu_setup_msis.
>>>
>>>
>>> However, that strategy didn't actually work very well because backports
>>> have proven difficult to do anyway. So at that point we might as well at
>>> least have clean code in Xen and do the changes properly.
It was difficult because Linux decided to rework how IOMMU drivers
works. I agree the risk is still there and therefore clean code would be
better with some caveats (see below).
>
> Main reason to remove the feature/code that is not usable in XEN is to have a clean code.
I agree that short term this feature will not be usable. However, I
think we need to think about {medium, long}-term plan to avoid extra
effort in the future because the driver evolve in a way making the
revert of revert impossible.
Therefore I would prefer to keep both the MSI and PCI ATS present as
they are going to be useful/necessary on some platforms. It doesn't
matter that they don't work because the driver will be in tech preview.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-02 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-26 17:01 [PATCH v2 0/8] xen/arm: Add support for SMMUv3 driver Rahul Singh
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] xen/arm: Import the SMMUv3 driver from Linux Rahul Singh
2020-12-01 22:01 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] xen/arm: revert atomic operation related command-queue insertion patch Rahul Singh
2020-12-01 22:23 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 13:05 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 13:44 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-03 11:49 ` Rahul Singh
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] xen/arm: revert patch related to XArray Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 0:20 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 13:46 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-03 12:57 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-04 8:52 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] xen/arm: Remove support for MSI on SMMUv3 Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 0:33 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 0:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 13:12 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 14:11 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2020-12-03 12:59 ` Rahul Singh
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] xen/arm: Remove support for PCI ATS " Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 0:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 13:07 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 13:57 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] xen/arm: Remove support for Stage-1 translation " Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 0:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 13:13 ` Rahul Singh
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] xen/arm: Remove Linux specific code that is not usable in XEN Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 1:48 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 14:34 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 14:39 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-02 14:45 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-03 14:33 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-04 9:05 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-07 10:36 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-07 10:55 ` Julien Grall
2020-11-26 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] xen/arm: Add support for SMMUv3 driver Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 2:51 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-02 16:27 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 19:26 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 16:47 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-03 4:13 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-03 14:40 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-03 18:47 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-07 8:33 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-02 16:22 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-07 12:12 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-07 17:39 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-07 18:42 ` Rahul Singh
2020-12-08 19:05 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-09 1:19 ` Stefano Stabellini
2020-12-09 7:55 ` Bertrand Marquis
2020-12-09 9:18 ` Julien Grall
2020-12-09 18:37 ` Rahul Singh
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