Probably a good idea to CC the iommu list and maintainer...
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 17:28 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> The iommu_init() call initializes IOMMU internal structures and data
> required for the API to function such as iommu_group_alloc().
> It is registered as a subsys_initcall.
>
> One of the IOMMU users is a PCI subsystem on POWER which discovers new
> IOMMU tables during the PCI scan so the most logical place to call
> iommu_group_alloc() is when a new group is just discovered. However
> PCI scan is done from subsys_initcall hook as well what makes
> using of the IOMMU API impossible.
>
> The patch moves IOMMU subsystem initialization one step earlier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>
> ---
> drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> index de857bb..b0afd3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu.c
> @@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ printk("%s %u\n", __func__, __LINE__);
>
> return 0;
> }
> -subsys_initcall(iommu_init);
> +arch_initcall(iommu_init);
>
> int iommu_domain_get_attr(struct iommu_domain *domain,
> enum iommu_attr attr, void *data)
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