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From: Joerg Roedel <joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: Valentine Sinitsyn
	<valentine.sinitsyn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: David Kiarie
	<davidkiarie4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	jankiskza-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org,
	iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: IVDB DTE_ALL Settings
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:48:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150805094836.GR14980@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C0F0E9.6030902-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:05:45PM +0500, Valentine Sinitsyn wrote:
> Not directly related to the issue David discovered, but as we
> discuss IVRS handling: the specification says that ACPI tables data
> overrides what's in hardware registers (Sect. 5). To the best of my
> understanding, this means e.g. I should take HATS value not from EFR
> but from IVHD Type 10 block. However, amd_iommu driver code checks
> for features directly - for what reason? I'm not suggesting this is
> a bug, but rather asking your opinion here.

In my experience the hardware is more trustable than the ACPI table. We
had several issues with broken BIOSes that screw up the IVRS ACPI table,
so my trust in the values there is limited.



	Joerg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-05  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04  2:57 IVDB DTE_ALL Settings David Kiarie
     [not found] ` <20150804025745.GA4128-FBVcP3zgNXf1IFe7KZLm3A@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-04 16:56   ` Joerg Roedel
     [not found]     ` <20150804165619.GP14980-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-04 17:05       ` Valentine Sinitsyn
     [not found]         ` <55C0F0E9.6030902-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-05  9:48           ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
     [not found]             ` <20150805094836.GR14980-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-08-05  9:53               ` Valentine Sinitsyn

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