linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [Patch] calgary iommu: Use the first kernel's tce tables in kdump

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:52:53 +0300
From:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
To:	Chandru <chandru@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [Patch] calgary iommu: Use the first kernel's tce tables
	in kdump

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:15:27PM +0530, Chandru wrote:
> kdump kernel fails to boot with calgary iommu and aacraid driver on a x366 
> box. The ongoing dma's of aacraid from the first kernel continue to exist 
> until the driver is loaded in the kdump kernel. Calgary is initialized prior 
> to aacraid and creation of new tce tables causes wrong dma's to occur. Here 
> we try to get the tce tables of the first kernel in kdump kernel and use 
> them. While in the kdump kernel we do not allocate new tce tables but instead 
> read the base addres register contents of calgary iommu and use the tables 
> that the registers point to. With these changes the kdump kernel and hence 
> aacraid now boots normally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@...ibm.com>

Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>

Cheers,
Muli
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