Re: [PATCH V4 3/4] ACPI/IORT: Ignore all errors except EPROBE_DEFER

From: Sricharan R
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 09:03:00 EST


Hi Lorenzo,

On 5/22/2017 5:01 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 04:35:43PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
>> Hi Lorenzo,
>>
>> On 5/22/2017 4:07 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
>>> Hi Sricharan,
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 08:24:16PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
>>>> While deferring the probe of IOMMU masters, xlate and
>>>> add_device callbacks called from iort_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: 5a1bb638d567 ("drivers: acpi: Handle IOMMU lookup failure with deferred probing or error")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <sricharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> [V4] Added this patch newly.
>>>>
>>>> drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c | 6 ++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
>>>> index c5fecf9..16e101f 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
>>>> @@ -782,6 +782,12 @@ const struct iommu_ops *iort_iommu_configure(struct device *dev)
>>>> if (err)
>>>> 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;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is getting a bit convoluted. Is not it better to propagate the
>>> error back and let acpi_dma_configure() make a decision accordingly ?
>>>
>>
>> ok, I was trying to keep it in same way as DT, where of_dma_configure
>> (here acpi_dma_configure) calls of_iommu_configure(here iort_iommu_configure)
>> which ends up doing the check. So will have to be changed in both places
>> for symmetry.
>>
>>> Something like:
>>>
>>> -- >8 --
>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
>>> index e39ec7b..3a10d757 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
>>> @@ -1371,8 +1371,8 @@ int acpi_dma_configure(struct device *dev, enum dev_dma_attr attr)
>>> iort_set_dma_mask(dev);
>>>
>>> iommu = iort_iommu_configure(dev);
>>> - if (IS_ERR(iommu))
>>> - return PTR_ERR(iommu);
>>> + if (IS_ERR(iommu) && PTR_ERR(iommu) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>>> + return -EPROBE_DEFER;
>>
>> In case of other errors apart from EPROBE_DEFER,
>> iommu = NULL should be set, before passing it on to
>> arch_setup_dma_ops.
>
> Ah yes, sorry, that makes it uglier :(
>
> Point is, it does not make sense to me to have of/acpi_dma_configure()
> check a return code with (IS_ERR()) whilst we know the only error
> code you are allowed to handle is -EPROBE_DEFER, while at it it is
> better to make the -EPROBE_DEFER check explicit (otherwise it may
> seem that of/acpi_dma_configure() can handle an error code that
> is different from -EPROBE_DEFER - but they don't), no big deal either
> way though.
>

ok, in which case, the above check that you have shown
to be added additionally to the original patch.

Regards,
Sricharan

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