From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:58:28 +0100 From: Joerg Roedel To: Ben Hutchings Cc: shuah.khan@hp.com, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, LKML , stable , Greg KH , shuahkhan@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2] iommu/amd: Initialize device table after dma_ops Message-ID: <20130303225828.GA22602@8bytes.org> References: <1362087590.2822.44.camel@lorien2> <1362265235.3768.156.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1362265235.3768.156.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Ben, On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:00:35PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm not convinced about this backport, because the order of > initialisation already changed a lot after 3.2 and before the upstream > commit. So I'm going to wait for Joerg to confirm that this makes sense > before adding it to the patch queue. The patch looks good, it fixes a race condition during amd_iommu initialization. I'll also gave the backport a test to be sure it doesn't break anything. Thanks, Joerg