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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906251835060.3605@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:35:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>
cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.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:
>
> From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] intel-iommu: fix Identity Mapping to be arch independent
> 
> Drop the e820 scanning and use existing function for finding valid RAM
> regions to add to 1:1 mapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>

Is this tested on something that actually uses IOMMU?

If so, of the patches I've seen so far, this is obviously my favorite.

		Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/