linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] AMD IOMMU updates for 2.6.28

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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:39:23 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
CC:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AMD IOMMU updates for 2.6.28

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:28:13PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:07:11 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ingo,
> > 
> > please pull the updates for the AMD IOMMU driver for the 2.6.28 merge
> > window. Most of the patches had been sent to LKML for review and got
> > comments. One patch touches the GART driver and was added after an
> > objection with a patch previously in this series. Please pull.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit 74546a8cd9a4e2c26a15a534f0be2f9cc08ae675:
> >   Ingo Molnar (1):
> >         Revert "fix warning in: "x86: HPET_MSI Initialise per-cpu HPET timers""
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu.git iommu-updates-2.6.28
> > 
> > FUJITA Tomonori (1):
> >       AMD IOMMU: avoid unnecessary low zone allocation in alloc_coherent
> > 
> > Joerg Roedel (24):
> >       AMD IOMMU: check for invalid device pointers
> >       AMD IOMMU: move TLB flushing to the map/unmap helper functions
> >       x86: move GART TLB flushing options to generic code
> 
> As I wrote, I don't think that this GART patch is the right approach.

I don't thinks its clean to leave nofullflush in GART code and move
fullflush to generic code only. If we move something then both. But feel
free to submit a patch that removes the nofullflush option. I would not
disagree with that.

Joerg

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