On 17.08.2017 16:52, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:21:52AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >> Hello Joerg, >> >> On 10.08.2017 01:29, Joerg Roedel wrote: >>> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> >>> >>> Add a struct iommu_device to each tegra-gart and register it >>> with the iommu-core. Also link devices added to the driver >>> to their respective hardware iommus. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) >>> >> >> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> >> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> >> >>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c b/drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c >>> index 29bafc6..b62f790 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c >>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/tegra-gart.c >> >> [snip] >> >>> @@ -449,6 +472,9 @@ static int tegra_gart_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) >>> { >> >> BTW, GART's driver can't be build as a module, so this function is pretty much a >> dead code. Probably worth considering its removal. > > Technically you can unbind the driver via sysfs, in which case this > function would still be called. That said, all sorts of things will > probably start to crash when you do that. I'd like to think that we > will eventually be able to deal with this sanely (there's some work > in progress to establish stronger links between devices, so that we > can sanely deal with this kind of dependency), so I think it's okay > to keep this around in case we ever get there. > Good point! I tried to unbind and with this patch kernel crashes immediately: [ 193.968506] kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2816! [ 193.968912] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM [ 193.969466] Modules linked in: [ 193.969822] CPU: 1 PID: 1177 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.13.0-rc5-next-20170816-00067-gd320d19b76f8 #593 [ 193.970653] Hardware name: NVIDIA Tegra SoC (Flattened Device Tree) [ 193.971313] task: ee31e380 task.stack: ee394000 [ 193.971771] PC is at ___cache_free+0x374/0x47c [ 193.972261] LR is at 0x1 [ 193.972539] pc : [<c02776ec>] lr : [<00000001>] psr: 200b0093 [ 193.973112] sp : ee395dd0 ip : 00000009 fp : 00000000 [ 193.973603] r10: 00000480 r9 : 2e844000 r8 : c1814d8c [ 193.974097] r7 : 005e4c40 r6 : c0f91fc0 r5 : ef262480 r4 : ef0003c0 [ 193.974694] r3 : ef262400 r2 : ef262000 r1 : 00000400 r0 : 00000004 [snip] [ 193.991288] [<c02776ec>] (___cache_free) from [<c0278230>] (kfree+0xbc/0x260) [ 193.991978] [<c0278230>] (kfree) from [<c058897c>] (device_release+0x2c/0x90) [ 193.992732] [<c058897c>] (device_release) from [<c0ab6f14>] (kobject_put+0x8c/0xe8) [ 193.993474] [<c0ab6f14>] (kobject_put) from [<c0527868>] (tegra_gart_remove+0x1c/0x58) [ 193.994320] [<c0527868>] (tegra_gart_remove) from [<c058f770>] (platform_drv_remove+0x24/0x3c) [ 193.995121] [<c058f770>] (platform_drv_remove) from [<c058db30>] (device_release_driver_internal+0x15c/0x204) [ 193.996033] [<c058db30>] (device_release_driver_internal) from [<c058c2fc>] (unbind_store+0x7c/0xfc) [ 193.996890] [<c058c2fc>] (unbind_store) from [<c02f8078>] (kernfs_fop_write+0x104/0x208) [ 193.997661] [<c02f8078>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c027f6ec>] (__vfs_write+0x1c/0x128) [ 193.998445] [<c027f6ec>] (__vfs_write) from [<c02810b8>] (vfs_write+0xa4/0x168) [ 194.017668] [<c02810b8>] (vfs_write) from [<c0281f0c>] (SyS_write+0x3c/0x90) [ 194.038493] [<c0281f0c>] (SyS_write) from [<c0107ce0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c) [ 194.057182] Code: e3a03000 ebfff54e eaffffe2 e7f001f2 (e7f001f2) Without this patch, it crashes too after unbinding but not immediately. Either way unbinding isn't useful for this device. > I don't have any objections to making the driver unloadable if that > is what everyone else prefers, though. In that case, however, there > are more steps involved than just removing the ->remove() callback. > Indeed! -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html