Re: [PATCH v7 04/16] drivers: iommu: make of_iommu_set/get_ops() DT agnostic

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:25:16PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 14/11/16 15:52, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00:47PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> >> If we've already made the decision to move away from bus ops, I don't
> >> see that it makes sense to deliberately introduce new dependencies on
> >> them. Besides, as it stands, this patch literally implements "tell the
> >> iommu-core which hardware-iommus exist in the system and a seperate
> >> iommu_ops ptr for each of them" straight off.
> > 
> > Not sure which code you are looking at, but as I see it we have only
> > per-device iommu-ops now (with this patch). That is different from
> > having core-visible hardware-iommu instances where devices could link
> > to.
> 
> The per-device IOMMU ops are already there since 57f98d2f61e1. This
> patch generalises the other end, moving the "registering an IOMMU
> instance" (i.e. iommu_fwentry) bit into the IOMMU core, from being
> OF-specific. I'd be perfectly happy if we rename iommu_fwentry to
> iommu_instance, fwnode_iommu_set_ops() to iommu_register_instance(), and
> such if that makes the design intent clearer.

I second that and I need to know what to do with this patch sooner
rather than later so it is time we make a decision please.

Joerg, what's your opinion ?

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> If you'd also prefer to replace iommu_fwspec::ops with an opaque
> iommu_fwspec::iommu_instance pointer so that things are a bit more
> centralised (and users are forced to go through the API rather then call
> ops directly), I'd have no major objection either. My main point is that
> we've been deliberately putting the relevant building blocks in place -
> the of_iommu_{get,set}_ops stuff was designed from the start to
> accommodate per-instance ops, via the ops pointer *being* the instance
> token; the iommu_fwspec stuff is deliberately intended to provide
> per-device ops on top of that. The raw functionality is either there in
> iommu.c already, or moving there in patches already written, so if it
> doesn't look right all we need to focus on is making it look right.
> 
> > Also the rest of iommu-core code still makes use of the per-bus ops. The
> > per-device ops are only used for the of_xlate fn-ptr.
> 
> Hence my aforementioned patches intended for 4.10, directly following on
> from introducing iommu_fwspec in 4.9:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/iommu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg14576.html
> 
> ...the purpose being to provide a smooth transition from per-bus ops to
> per-device, per-instance ops. Apply those and we're 90% of the way there
> for OF-based IOMMU drivers (not that any of those actually need
> per-instance ops, admittedly; I did prototype it for the ARM SMMU ages
> ago, but it didn't seem worth the bother). Lorenzo's series broadens the
> scope to ACPI-based systems and moves the generically-useful parts into
> the core where we can easily build on them further if necessary. The
> major remaining work is to convert external callers of the current
> bus-dependent functions like iommu_domain_alloc(), iommu_present(), etc.
> to device-based alternatives.
> 
> Robin.