[PATCH 0/5] iommu/vt-d: Fix crash dump failure caused by legacy DMA/IO

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Wed Dec 10 00:46:52 PST 2014


Hi Joerg, ZhenHua,

This issue happens on AMD iommu too, do you have any plans or
thoughts on that?

Thanks
Baoquan

On 11/17/14 at 02:38pm, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 02:27:44PM +0800, Li, ZhenHua wrote:
> > I am working following  your directions:
> > 
> > 1.  If the VT-d driver finds the IOMMU enabled, it reuses its root entry
> > table, and do NOT disable-enable iommu. Other data will be copied.
> > 
> > 2. When a device driver issues the first dma_map command for a
> > device, we assign a new and empty page-table, thus removing all
> > mappings from the old kernel for the device.
> > 
> > Please let me know if I get something wrong.
> 
> Yes, this sounds right. Happily waiting for patches :)
> 
> 
> 	Joerg
> 



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