Re: [PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu: fix the module name for disable_bypass parameter

From: Li Yang
Date: Tue Feb 11 2020 - 19:39:54 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:47 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:36:55PM -0600, Li Yang wrote:
> > Since commit cd221bd24ff5 ("iommu/arm-smmu: Allow building as a module"),
> > there is a side effect that the module name is changed from arm-smmu to
> > arm-smmu-mod. So the kernel parameter for disable_bypass need to be
> > changed too. Fix the Kconfig help and error message to the correct
> > parameter name.
>
> Hmm, this seems to be a user-visible change - so those of us who have
> been booting with "arm-smmu.disable_bypass=0" now need to change that
> depending on which kernel is being booted - which is not nice, and
> makes the support side on platforms that need this kernel parameter
> harder.

I have sent a new patch replacing this patch. That patch will keep
the command line unchanged.

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/iommu/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 2 +-
> > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
> > index d2fade984999..fb54be903c60 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
> > @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ config ARM_SMMU_DISABLE_BYPASS_BY_DEFAULT
> > hardcode the bypass disable in the code.
> >
> > NOTE: the kernel command line parameter
> > - 'arm-smmu.disable_bypass' will continue to override this
> > + 'arm-smmu-mod.disable_bypass' will continue to override this
> > config.
> >
> > config ARM_SMMU_V3
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> > index 16c4b87af42b..2ffe8ff04393 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> > @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static irqreturn_t arm_smmu_global_fault(int irq, void *dev)
> > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_SMMU_DISABLE_BYPASS_BY_DEFAULT) &&
> > (gfsr & ARM_SMMU_sGFSR_USF))
> > dev_err(smmu->dev,
> > - "Blocked unknown Stream ID 0x%hx; boot with \"arm-smmu.disable_bypass=0\" to allow, but this may have security implications\n",
> > + "Blocked unknown Stream ID 0x%hx; boot with \"arm-smmu-mod.disable_bypass=0\" to allow, but this may have security implications\n",
> > (u16)gfsynr1);
> > else
> > dev_err(smmu->dev,
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
> >
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