[PATCH] pseries/iommu: remove iommu device references via bus notifier
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Feb 20 15:31:29 AEDT 2015
On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 10:41 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> After d905c5df9aef ("PPC: POWERNV: move iommu_add_device earlier"), the
> refcnt on the kobject backing the IOMMU group for a PCI device is
> elevated by each call to pci_dma_dev_setup_pSeriesLP() (via
> set_iommu_table_base_and_group). When we go to dlpar a multi-function
> PCI device out:
>
> iommu_reconfig_notifier ->
> iommu_free_table ->
> iommu_group_put
> BUG_ON(tbl->it_group)
>
> We trip this BUG_ON, because there are still references on the table, so
> it is not freed. Fix this by also adding a bus notifier identical to
> PowerNV for pSeries.
Please put it somewhere common, arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c perhaps, and just
add a second machine_init_call() for pseries.
cheers
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