Re: [PATCH v9 0/10] iommu/vt-d: Fix intel vt-d faults in kdump kernel

[Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>]

On 05/12/15 at 01:57pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 05/11/15 at 12:11pm, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:56:00PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > Joreg, I can not find the last reply from you, so just reply here about
> > > my worries here.
> > > 
> > > I said that the patchset will cause more problems, let me explain about
> > > it more here:
> > > 
> > > Suppose page table was corrupted, ie. original mapping iova1 -> page 1
> > > it was changed to iova1 -> page 2 accidently while crash happening,
> > > thus future dma will read/write page 2 instead page 1, right?
> > 
> > When the page-table is corrupted then it is a left-over from the old
> > kernel. When the kdump kernel boots the situation can at least not get
> > worse. For the page tables it is also hard to detect wrong mappings (if
> > this would be possible the hardware could already do it), so any checks
> > we could do there are of limited use anyway.
> 
> Joerg, since both of you guys do not think it is a problem I will object it 

s/will object/will not object

> any more though I still do not like reusing the old page tables. So let's
> leave it as a future issue.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave