Re: [PATCH V4 2/4] iommu: of: Ignore all errors except EPROBE_DEFER

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 10:56:48 EST


Hi Sricharan,

Thank you for the patch.

On Thursday 18 May 2017 20:24:15 Sricharan R wrote:
> While deferring the probe of IOMMU masters, xlate and
> add_device callbacks called from of_iommu_configure
> can pass back error values like -ENODEV, which means
> the IOMMU cannot be connected with that master for real
> reasons. Before the IOMMU probe deferral, all such errors
> were ignored. Now all those errors are propagated back,
> killing the master's probe for such errors. Instead ignore
> all the errors except EPROBE_DEFER, which is the only one
> of concern and let the master work without IOMMU, thus
> restoring the old behavior.
>
> Fixes: 7b07cbefb68d ("iommu: of: Handle IOMMU lookup failure with deferred
> probing or error") Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Magnus Damn <magnus.damn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> [V4] Reworded commit log and changed dev_info to dev_dbg
>
> drivers/iommu/of_iommu.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/of_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/of_iommu.c
> index e6e9bec..19779b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/of_iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/of_iommu.c
> @@ -237,6 +237,12 @@ const struct iommu_ops *of_iommu_configure(struct
> device *dev, ops = ERR_PTR(err);
> }
>
> + /* Ignore all other errors apart from EPROBE_DEFER */
> + if (IS_ERR(ops) && (PTR_ERR(ops) != -EPROBE_DEFER)) {
> + dev_dbg(dev, "Adding to IOMMU failed: %ld\n", PTR_ERR(ops));
> + ops = NULL;
> + }
> +
> return ops;
> }

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart