From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752675AbYIVMFl (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:05:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751497AbYIVMFd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:05:33 -0400 Received: from outbound-sin.frontbridge.com ([207.46.51.80]:53284 "EHLO SG2EHSOBE002.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbYIVMFd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:05:33 -0400 X-BigFish: VPS-8(z1039oz98dR936fQzz10d3izzz32i6bh43j61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-WSS-ID: 0K7LIWU-04-P5C-01 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:05:19 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: Ingo Molnar CC: FUJITA Tomonori , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option Message-ID: <20080922120519.GX24392@amd.com> References: <20080920012322R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20080920060059.GA25713@elte.hu> <20080920225705C.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20080922111730.GF5987@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080922111730.GF5987@elte.hu> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2008 12:05:19.0715 (UTC) FILETIME=[7BB40330:01C91CAB] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:17:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > well, i'd like you two to agree on how to proceed. Could you send a > patch please that adds back the option that Joerg's patch removed? I > certainly dont argue with the point that we should preserve existing > options. I didn't removed any option. I just moved them from GART to the generic code. I am fine with every solution that keeps iommu=fullflush usable for AMD IOMMU (except maybe an amd_iommu_parse_options hook in the generic code like its there for GART). Joerg -- | AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG Operating | Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany System | Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896 Research | General Partner authorized to represent: Center | AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) | General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy