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Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules
Date 2017-07-06 16:20 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:09:45PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> I suppose another option is to just make the IOMMU and DMA ops a
> self-contained non-modular driver mirroring the VT-d/AMD-Vi IOMMUs -
> AFAICS it shouldn't have to be all that tightly coupled to the IPU bus
> code, the latter more or less just needs to create the appropriate IOMMU
> device for the driver to find.

I still haven't seen the driver code, but this seems to be best
solution so far.  Given that it's not a plug in device but part of
an SOC that seems perfectly acceptable to me.

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[RFC PATCH 0/5] Fixes for loadable modules implementing DMA/IOMMU APIs Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 09:20 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 5/5] iommu/dma: Add iommu_dma_cleanup() Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 09:20 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 2/5] base: dma-mapping: Provide a function to look up remapped pages Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 09:20 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 3/5] iommu: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 09:20 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 09:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-07-05 17:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 17:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-07-05 19:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 03:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-06 10:30 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 10:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 10:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-06 14:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 15:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 15:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 16:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-06 16:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 16:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-06 16:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] base: dma-mapping: Export commonly used symbols Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-06 16:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-05 09:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in  modules Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> - 2017-07-05 18:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 04:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in  modules Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> - 2017-07-06 13:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use         in modules Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-07-06 16:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 16:20 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 16:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-07-06 16:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] iommu/dma: Export non-static functions to use in modules Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 16:50 +0200

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