Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Increase maximum micro-TLBS to 48

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Jan 23 2017 - 07:42:34 EST


Hi Magnus,

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Magnus Damm <damm+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Bump up the maximum numbers of micro-TLBS to 48.
>
> Each IPMMU device instance get micro-TLB assignment via
> the "iommus" property in DT. Older SoCs tend to use a
> maximum number of 32 micro-TLBs per IPMMU instance however
> newer SoCs such as r8a7796 make use of up to 48 micro-TLBs.
>
> At this point no SoC specific handling is done to validate
> the maximum number of micro-TLBs, and because of that the
> DT information is assumed to be within correct range for
> each particular SoC.
>
> If needed in the future SoC specific feature flags can be
> added to handle the maximum number of micro-TLBs without
> requiring DT changes, however at this point this does not
> seem necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

> @@ -1141,7 +1145,7 @@ static int ipmmu_probe(struct platform_d
> }
>
> mmu->dev = &pdev->dev;
> - mmu->num_utlbs = 32;
> + mmu->num_utlbs = 48;

This value is only used to validate the utlb channel numbers received from DT,
in ipmmu_init_platform_device(), right?

> spin_lock_init(&mmu->lock);
> bitmap_zero(mmu->ctx, IPMMU_CTX_MAX);
> mmu->features = match->data;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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