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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:58:47 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019125847.GA3649@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101018145557.GB21383@amd.com>

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:55:57PM +0200, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:34:01AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Am 18.10.2010 15:48, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:38:40AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > >> We also have to call kvm_iommu_map_pages for CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU. So drop
> > >> the dependency on Intel IOMMU, kvm_iommu_map_pages will be a nop anyway
> > >> if CONFIG_IOMMU_API is not defined.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> > > 
> > > Is this also a -stable candidate?
> > 
> > I can't seriously judge as I was not able to test its effect on real
> > hardware.
> > 
> > The patch seems to apply (with mechanical adjustments) down to 2.6.32.
> > If it is considered for stable, it will also take [1] to avoid build
> > breakage without CONFIG_IOMMU_API.
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/60954
> 
> Looks trivial enough. I would consider both patches as -stable material.
> 
> 	Joerg

Applied both with stable tag, thanks Jan.


      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18 13:38 [PATCH] KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages Jan Kiszka
2010-10-18 13:48 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-10-18 14:34   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-10-18 14:55     ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-10-19 12:58       ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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