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SubjectRe: [RFC 01/10] iommu: Add IOMMU device registry
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 02:47:10PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 01:05:30PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:49:41PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > Add an IOMMU device registry for drivers to register with and implement
> > > a method for users of the IOMMU API to attach to an IOMMU device. This
> > > allows to support deferred probing and gives the IOMMU API a convenient
> > > hook to perform early initialization of a device if necessary.
> >
> > Can you elaborate on why exactly you need this? The IOMMU-API is
> > designed to hide any details from the user about the available IOMMUs in
> > the system and which IOMMU handles which device. This looks like it is
> > going in a completly different direction from that.
>
> I need this primarily to properly serialize device probing order.
> Without it the IOMMU may be probed later than its clients, in which case
> the client drivers will assume that there is no IOMMU (iommu_present()
> for the parent bus fails).

I can also vouch for needing *a* solution to this problem. The ARM SMMU (and
I think others) rely on initcall ordering rather than the driver probing
model to ensure the IOMMU is probed before any of its masters.

Will


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