Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] omap3-iommu: remote registration

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: ext Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] omap3-iommu: remote registration
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:11:13 +0200
>
>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:05:50PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> > This allows devices to be registered only when they are used. The
>> > current dsp-bridge driver for example is not using iommu so registering
>> > the iommu iva2 device would conflict. By allowing remote registration
>> > the dsp-bridge can decide when the iommu iva2 device is registered.
>>
>> I don't think that this is a good idea - what happens if two people
>> call omap_iommu_add() for the same IOMMU device independently?
>>
>> The real problem here seems to be the TI DSP bridge code, and if that's
>> the case why can't we just avoid registering IVA2 if the TI DSP bridge
>> code is enabled.  That solves your stated problem without creating
>> additional management issues.
>
> How about the attached patch? I think this is enough.

That wouldn't work when bridgedriver moves to iommu, how about:

+#if !defined(CONFIG_MPU_BRIDGE) && !defined(CONFIG_OMAP_DSP_MODULE)
+#if defined(CONFIG_MPU_BRIDGE_IOMMU)

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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