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Message-ID: <1256658632.5937.7.camel@bling> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:50:32 -0600 From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Cc: iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] intel-iommu: Reinstate RMRRs if a device is removed from passthrough domain On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:15 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 17:25 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > When a device is setup for passthrough it has full access to memory > > so processing the RMRRs is unnecessary. However, if we remove the device > > from the si_domain, we need to reinstate the associated RMRRs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com> > > If your device is doing DMA to host memory autonomously, you may still > have problems with this patch -- you take it out of the si_domain and > then there's a period of time before you reapply the RMRRs, during which > its DMA may be prevented. > > You want to set up the new domain first, then switch the device over to > it atomically. Yes, good point. I'm not seeing any convenient ways to setup a new domain for a device while it's still a member of the si_domain. It looks like I'd need to extract parts of the get_valid_domain_for_dev() path and ignore any bits about using the already existing domain. Is there an easier way? Thanks, Alex -- 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/
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