linux-kernel - Re: agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:25:29 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT

> yes that is the theory - but how did your disk get corrupted in 
> practice? ;-)

I suspect after wakeup due to the wrong ordering in resume (agp resume function
called too late).

The IOMMU code unfortunately doesn't know that the GART has gone away. 

The right fix for that is probably to move the GART resume code into
some shared file and make it a sysdev.

-Andi

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