linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2] iommu/amd: Initialize device table after dma

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Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:42:38 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:	shuah.khan@...com, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, shuahkhan@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2] iommu/amd: Initialize device table after dma_ops

On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 23:58 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 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.

Applied, thanks all.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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