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From: m.szyprowski@samsung•com (Marek Szyprowski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 5/7] dma-mapping: detect and configure IOMMU in of_dma_configure
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:12:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544E28A6.8090209@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141027105158.GE8768@arm.com>

Hello,

On 2014-10-27 11:51, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:53:59PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> On Monday 22 September 2014 18:50:27 Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>>> Agreed. I wonder how useful it is to know the set of IOMMU instances
>>>> that each device can master through. Wouldn't it be more useful to keep
>>>> a list of master interfaces for each device? The set of IOMMU instances
>>>> can trivially be derived from that.
>>> I'm struggling to think how that would look. What do you mean by `master
>>> interfaces' in terms of the code we have in Linux? At the end of the day,
>>> the list of IOMMU instances (i.e. iommu_dma_mapping) exists because you
>>> and Laurent have use-cases involving devices mastering through multiple
>>> IOMMUs. If it doesn't work for you, it might be best for you to send me
>>> the patch ;)
>> Just for the record, I've brought up the topic of masters being served by
>> multiple IOMMUs, but don't have a use case for it (yet at least). I do have
>> masters served through multiple streams with separate stream IDs, but all by
>> the same IOMMU.
> Ok. I spoke to Arnd, David and Joerg at LPC and the consensus was that the
> DMA-mapping API should *not* be exposed to the details of masters that
> master through multiple IOMMUs. Instead, that should be abstracted by the
> device API by exposing that device as a single struct device.
>
> So, that's certainly an area that needs more work and I'll drop the limited
> support I'd cooked up from this patch set in the next version.

Great! That's more or less something I've already implemented on top of your
previous patchset, as I didn't have any good idea how to manage multiple 
masters
separately. I'm waiting for your next update and I will rebase my 
patches soon.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-27 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12 16:34 [RFC PATCH v3 0/7] Introduce automatic DMA configuration for IOMMU masters Will Deacon
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] iommu: provide early initialisation hook for IOMMU drivers Will Deacon
2014-09-18 14:31   ` Robin Murphy
2014-09-22 17:35     ` Will Deacon
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/7] dma-mapping: replace set_arch_dma_coherent_ops with arch_setup_dma_ops Will Deacon
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/7] iommu: add new iommu_ops callback for adding an OF device Will Deacon
2014-09-15 11:57   ` Marek Szyprowski
2014-09-17  1:39     ` Will Deacon
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/7] iommu: provide helper function to configure an IOMMU for an of master Will Deacon
2014-09-18 11:13   ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-22 17:13     ` Will Deacon
2014-10-14 13:12       ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/7] dma-mapping: detect and configure IOMMU in of_dma_configure Will Deacon
2014-09-18 11:17   ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-22  9:29     ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 17:50       ` Will Deacon
2014-10-14 12:53         ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-27 10:51           ` Will Deacon
2014-10-27 11:12             ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2014-10-27 11:30             ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-27 16:02               ` Will Deacon
2014-10-27 16:33                 ` jroedel at suse.de
2014-09-22 17:46     ` Will Deacon
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/7] arm: call iommu_init before of_platform_populate Will Deacon
2014-09-22  9:36   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 11:08     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-22 11:40       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22 16:03         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-23  7:02           ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-23  7:44             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-23  8:59               ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-14 13:07               ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-14 13:20                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-10-14 13:37                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-14 15:01                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-14 15:05                       ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-14 15:10                         ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-12 16:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 7/7] arm: dma-mapping: plumb our iommu mapping ops into arch_setup_dma_ops Will Deacon
2014-09-22  9:19   ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-22  9:22     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-09-22 17:43     ` Will Deacon
2014-09-23  7:14       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-24 16:33         ` Will Deacon
2014-09-25  6:40           ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-30 16:00             ` Will Deacon
2014-10-01  8:46               ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-03 15:08                 ` Will Deacon
2014-10-06  9:52                   ` Thierry Reding
2014-10-06 10:50                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-06 13:05                       ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-16 11:40 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/7] Introduce automatic DMA configuration for IOMMU masters Robin Murphy
2014-09-17  1:19   ` Will Deacon

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