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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:50:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810030950.19359.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081001165606.GA21279@linux-os.sc.intel.com>

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 10:56:06 am Fenghua Yu wrote:
> The following two patches (Intel IOMMU generic patch and ia64 specific patch) together enable Intel IOMMU on IA64 platform. They are applied cleanly on the latest linux-next tree which contains Intel IOMMU interrupt remapping and VT-d driver KVM support code.

General comment (not ia64-related): it looks like you detect the
IOMMU using the static DMAR table.  Does the IOMMU also appear in
PCI config space or the ACPI namespace?  I expect it would, because
the fact that the DMAR table is static precludes any sort of hot-plug
to add or remove IOMMUs.

If it *is* in config space or the namespace, it would be good to
exercise that discovery path to help shake out firmware bugs.  For
example, arch/ia64/hp/common/sba_iommu.c uses acpi_bus_register_driver()
to discover HP IOMMUs.  I wouldn't hold the sba_iommu.c discovery code
(most of which I take the blame for) up as a shining example of how to
do things, but it shows the point.

Bjorn

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 16:56 [PATCH 0/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU Fenghua Yu
2008-10-03 15:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2008-10-06 19:44   ` [PATCH 0/2]Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel Yu, Fenghua
2008-10-07  0:01 ` [PATCH V2 0/2] Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU Fenghua Yu

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