Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] iommu/tegra-smmu: Rework .probe_device and .attach_dev

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 11:36:58 EST


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>> + struct tegra_mc *mc = devm_tegra_get_memory_controller(dev);
>> + struct iommu_fwspec *fwspec = dev_iommu_fwspec_get(dev);
>
> It looks to me like the only reason why you need this new global API is
> because PCI devices may not have a device tree node with a phandle to
> the IOMMU. However, SMMU support for PCI will only be enabled if the
> root complex has an iommus property, right? In that case, can't we
> simply do something like this:
>
> if (dev_is_pci(dev))
> np = find_host_bridge(dev)->of_node;
> else
> np = dev->of_node;
>
> ? I'm not sure exactly what find_host_bridge() is called, but I'm pretty
> sure that exists.
>
> Once we have that we can still iterate over the iommus property and do
> not need to rely on this global variable.

This sounds more complicated than the current variant.

Secondly, I'm already about to use the new tegra_get_memory_controller()
API for all the T20/30/124/210 EMC and devfreq drivers.