linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Initialize iommu_map_table and iommu

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:47:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tushar.n.dave@...cle.com
Cc:     chris.hyser@...cle.com, sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com,
        vgupta@...opsys.com, robin.murphy@....com, jroedel@...e.de,
        egtvedt@...fundet.no, krzk@...nel.org, rkuo@...eaurora.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Initialize iommu_map_table and iommu_pool

From: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:12:04 -0700

> Like legacy IOMMU, use common iommu_map_table and iommu_pool for ATU.
> This change initializes iommu_map_table and iommu_pool for ATU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: chris hyser <chris.hyser@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>

I suspect you are adding a bisection problem here.

It looks to me like patch #2 starts setting up to use the ATU
but these changes in #3 and later are necessary for it to even
work properly.

You can't leave the tree in an intermediate non-working state
between changes like that.