[v2] pseries/iommu: remove iommu device references via bus notifier

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Feb 23 13:27:24 AEDT 2015


On Sat, 2015-21-02 at 19:00:50 UTC, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 20.02.2015 [15:31:29 +1100], Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How does this look? Only compile-tested with CONFIG_IOMMU_API on/off so
> far, waiting for access to the test LPAR (should have it on Monday).

Yeah that looks better, thanks.

It probably doesn't build with CONFIG_PCI=n though, but I don't think
CONFIG_PCI=n builds anyway.

cheers


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