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From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Yuri Volchkov <volchkov@amazon.de>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, neugebar@amazon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iommu/dmar: expose fault counters via sysfs
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:45:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005c9cae-be2a-80a7-6e78-ed535160350a@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191015151112.17225-1-volchkov@amazon.de>

Hi,

On 10/15/19 11:11 PM, Yuri Volchkov wrote:
> For health monitoring, it can be useful to know if iommu is behaving as
> expected. DMAR faults can be an indicator that a device:
>   - has been misconfigured, or
>   - has experienced a hardware hiccup and replacement should
>     be considered, or
>   - has been issuing faults due to malicious activity
> 
> Currently the only way to check if there were any DMAR faults on the
> host is to scan the dmesg output. However this approach is not very
> elegant. The information we are looking for can be wrapped out of the
> buffer, or masked (since it is a rate-limited print) by another
> device.
> 
> The series adds counters for DMAR faults and exposes them via sysfs.
> 

We now have an iommu API named iommu_register_fault_handler() to
register callbacks for dmar faults. How about monitoring the dmar
fault through this api so that your code could be generic and vendor
agnostic?

Best regards,
Baolu

> Yuri Volchkov (2):
>    iommu/dmar: collect fault statistics
>    iommu/dmar: catch early fault occurrences
> 
>   drivers/iommu/dmar.c        | 182 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c |   1 +
>   drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c     |  20 ++++
>   include/linux/intel-iommu.h |   4 +
>   include/linux/pci.h         |  11 +++
>   5 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-16  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-15 15:11 [PATCH 0/2] iommu/dmar: expose fault counters via sysfs Yuri Volchkov via iommu
2019-10-15 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] iommu/dmar: collect fault statistics Yuri Volchkov via iommu
2019-10-16 17:16   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-10-15 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] iommu/dmar: catch early fault occurrences Yuri Volchkov via iommu
2019-10-16  0:45 ` Lu Baolu [this message]

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