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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Max Asbock <masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] vt-d: handle previous faults after enabling fault handling
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 00:52:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101201085252.GO10050@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101201062244.630417138@intel.com>

* Suresh Siddha (suresh.b.siddha@intel.com) wrote:
> Fault handling is getting enabled after enabling the interrupt-remapping (as
> the success of interrupt-remapping can affect the apic mode and hence the
> fault handling mode).
> 
> Hence there can potentially be some faults between the window of enabling
> interrupt-remapping in the vt-d and the fault-handling of the vt-d units.
> 
> Handle any previous faults after enabling the vt-d fault handling.
> 
> For v2.6.38 cleanup, need to check if we can remove the dmar_fault() in the
> enable_intr_remapping() and see if we can enable fault handling along with
> enabling intr-remapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-01  6:22 [patch 0/4] x86, intr-remapping patches for addressing kexec/kdump issues Suresh Siddha
2010-12-01  6:22 ` [patch 1/4] vt-d: quirk for masking vtd spec errors to platform error handling logic Suresh Siddha
2010-12-01  7:26   ` Chris Wright
2010-12-06 17:27   ` Jesse Barnes
2010-12-06 20:26     ` Suresh Siddha
2010-12-06 20:44       ` Jesse Barnes
2010-12-06 21:02         ` Suresh Siddha
2010-12-06 23:01           ` Max Asbock
2010-12-14  1:15       ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, vt-d: Quirk " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-12-01  6:22 ` [patch 2/4] x86, vtd: fix the vt-d fault handling irq migration in the x2apic mode Suresh Siddha
2010-12-01  8:52   ` Chris Wright
2010-12-01 15:14   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-12-01 17:40     ` Suresh Siddha
2010-12-07 17:38       ` Takao Indoh
2010-12-14  1:16       ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, vt-d: Fix " tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige
2010-12-01  6:22 ` [patch 3/4] x86: enable the intr-remap fault handling after local apic setup Suresh Siddha
2010-12-01  8:51   ` Chris Wright
2010-12-14  1:16   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Enable the intr-remap fault handling after local APIC setup tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige
2010-12-01  6:22 ` [patch 4/4] vt-d: handle previous faults after enabling fault handling Suresh Siddha
2010-12-01  8:52   ` Chris Wright [this message]
2010-12-14  1:17   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, vt-d: Handle " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha

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