linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU Identity Mapping Support

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906261213400.6967@twosheds.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:15:07 +0100 (BST)
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] IA64 Compilation Error Fix for Intel IOMMU Identity
 Mapping Support

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Chris Wright wrote:

> * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@...ux-foundation.org) wrote:
>> Ok. Sounds like what I want is to get this patch through the ia64 people,
>> after it has gotten some testing there. Since ia64 is where the current
>> kernel fails anyway, that sounds like the motivation will be there too.
>
> Yup, I agree.

Tony, please could you test what's in git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git

It builds, but we'd like to check that it works correctly with iommu=pt on 
IA64.

(I'm leaving Fenghua's performance improvement for later.)

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dwmw2
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