[RFC PATCH 0/2] driver core: add new dl device status DL_DEV_PROBE_FAILED

[Wang Dongsheng]

Recently we found the master of SMMU retries to probe endlessly.

[    3.658956] pci 0000:00:00.0: Retrying from deferred list
[    3.658969] pci 0000:00:00.0: Added to deferred list
[    3.658987] pci 0004:00:00.0: Retrying from deferred list
[    3.658994] pci 0004:00:00.0: Added to deferred list
[    3.659003] pci 0005:00:00.0: Retrying from deferred list
[    3.659010] pci 0005:00:00.0: Added to deferred list
[    3.659019] pci 0004:01:00.0: Retrying from deferred list
[    3.659029] pci 0004:01:00.0: Added to deferred list

The retrying should only happen when the IOMMU instance hasn't been
probed yet.
However, dma_configure() simply return -EPROBE_DEFER when failed to get
an IOMMU instance even if the IOMMU instance is failed to probe.

This patchset tries to fix the issue by distinguishing probe failures and
haven't-been-probed-yet state.

Wang Dongsheng (2):
  driver core: add new dl device status DL_DEV_PROBE_FAILED
  ACPI/IORT: use swiotlb_dma_ops when smmu probe failed

 Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst |  2 +-
 drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c                | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/base/base.h                      |  2 +-
 drivers/base/core.c                      | 22 ++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/base/dd.c                        |  2 +-
 include/linux/device.h                   |  1 +
 6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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