On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> An iommu driver for Qualcomm "B" family devices which do not completely
>>>> implement the ARM SMMU spec.  These devices have context-bank register
>>>> layout that is similar to ARM SMMU, but no global register space (or at
>>>> least not one that is accessible).
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> v1: original
>>>> v2: bindings cleanups and kconfig issues that kbuild robot pointed out
>>>> v4: fix issues pointed out by Rob H. and actually make device removal
>>>>     work
>>>> v3: fix WARN_ON() splats reported by Archit
>>>>
>>>>  drivers/iommu/Kconfig      |   9 +
>>>>  drivers/iommu/Makefile     |   1 +
>>>>  drivers/iommu/qcom_iommu.c | 833 
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  3 files changed, 843 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/qcom_iommu.c
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
>>>> index 37e204f..f8f79a4 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -359,4 +359,13 @@ config MTK_IOMMU_V1
>>>>
>>>>           if unsure, say N here.
>>>>
>>>> +config QCOM_IOMMU
>>>> +       bool "Qualcomm IOMMU Support"
>>>
>>> Either this needs to be tristate or...
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> +#include <linux/module.h>
>>>
>>> this include and the things that need it should go. Or some
>>> explanation like "once X happens, then we can enable as module" and
>>> leave it all for now.
>>
>> tbh, I'm not sure what the issue is for modules (other than
>> potentially that you'd want the iommu driver fairly early in boot if
>> you didn't have an initrd).  I just saw that the other iommu drivers
>> are all bool.  (Sorry, I don't really follow iommu-devel so not
>> familiar with the history.)  With my distro hat on, I would prefer
>> them to be modules eventually.
>
> For starters, does it even build as a module if you allow that? It
> might not work because of some run-time ordering, but that's good
> enough for this discussion.

It does in fact build as a module..  I suppose I need to figure out a
more convenient way to re-pack modules in an initrd to actually test
it and see what does or does not explode..

BR,
-R

>>
>>> See this[1] for some background.
>>
>> it mentions there are some downsides, but I can't see where those
>> downsides are listed ;-)
>>
>> I would kinda prefer to leave the MODULE_*() stuff in place unless
>> modular iommu drivers are never going to happen.
>
> Maybe a note, so the module police don't fix it.
>
> Rob
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