On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 01:42:54PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:50:25 +0000
> Will Deacon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:25:56AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:01:54PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:  
> > > > > Seems we're leaving the platform support for now, but I think we never
> > > > > actually enabled SMMU support. It's not in the dts either in mainline
> > > > > nor the version I have which should be close to what shipped in
> > > > > firmware. So as long as Andre agrees, this one is good to apply.    
> > > > 
> > > > Andre? Can I queue this one for 5.7, please?  
> > > 
> > > I was wondering how much of a pain it is to keep it in? AFAICS there are
> > > other users of the "impl" indirection. If those goes away, I would be
> > > happy to let Calxeda go.  
> > 
> > The impl stuff is new, so we'll keep it around. The concern is more about
> > testing (see below).
> > 
> > > But Eric had the magic DT nodes to get the SMMU working, and I used that
> > > before, with updating the DT either on flash or dynamically via U-Boot.  
> > 
> > What did you actually use the SMMU for, though? The
> > 'arm_iommu_create_mapping()' interface isn't widely used and, given that
> > highbank doesn't support KVM, the use-cases for VFIO are pretty limited
> > too.
> 
> AFAIK Highbank doesn't have the SMMU, probably mostly for that reason.
> I have a DT snippet for Midway, and that puts the MMIO base at ~36GB, which 
> is not possible on Highbank.
> So I think that the quirk is really meant and needed for Midway.

Sorry, but I don't follow your reasoning here. The MMIO base has nothing
to do with the quirk, although doing some digging it looks like your
conclusion about this applying to Midway (ecx-2000?) is correct:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-January/226095.html

> > > So I don't know exactly *how* desperate you are with removing this, or if
> > > there are other reasons than "negative diffstat", but if possible I would
> > > like to keep it in.  
> > 
> > It's more that we *do* make quite a lot of changes to the arm-smmu driver
> > and it's never tested with this quirk. If you're stepping up to run smmu
> > tests on my queue for each release on highbank, then great, but otherwise
> > I'd rather not carry the code for fun. The change in diffstat is minimal
> > (we're going to need to hooks for nvidia, who broke things in a different
> > way).
> 
> I am about to set up some more sophisticated testing, and will include
> some SMMU bits in it.

Yes, please.

Will
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