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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:INTEL IOMMU (VT-d)" <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:36:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130814093607.GB4491@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130709223106.GA16429@roeck-us.net>

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:31:06PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:05:39PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Joerg, David, iommu list]
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > I started seeing this problem after updating the BIOS trying fix another issue,
> > > though I may have missed it earlier.
> > >
> > > I understand this is a BIOS bug. Would be great if someone can pass this on
> > > to Intel BIOS engineers.
> > 
> > Maybe.  It'd be nice if Linux handled it better, though.
> > 
> If anyone has an idea how to do that, I'll be happy to write a patch.

I doubt that we can do anything meaningful here. The BIOS is broken in a
way so that we can't use the IOMMU in Linux. We can patch away the
WARN_ON and make it a sumple FW_BUG message, but the noise a WARN_ON
makes maybe help getting this issue fixed.

But I may be convinced otherwise, if people think this WARN_ON is not
worth it.


	Joerg



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-09 20:24 WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard Guenter Roeck
2013-07-09 21:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-07-09 22:31   ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-09 23:22     ` Chris Wright
2013-07-09 23:43       ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-10  0:05         ` Chris Wright
2013-07-10  0:18           ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-10  0:53             ` David Woodhouse
2013-07-10  3:55               ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-11 19:00         ` Chris Wright
2013-07-11 20:59           ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-11 22:31             ` Chris Wright
2013-08-14  9:36     ` Joerg Roedel [this message]

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