linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: fix iommu=soft boot option

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Message-ID: <20091125091026.GA11117@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:10:26 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	yinghai@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: fix iommu=soft boot option


* FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:54:34 -0800
> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > only remember that SLES 9 SP3 (?) at some point has problem with AMD 
> > 10h ( quad core version) when memory > 4 g (with USB controller ?) 
> > because the gart code only check K8 device id, and didn't check 10h 
> > device id. so gart iommu is not used. and happenly swiotlb code has 
> > problem with that kernel version.
> > 
> > thinking we should keep old behavior, until some day we can remove 
> > them all.
> 
> Why? We are talking about changing 2.6.33 behavior. swiotlb in 2.6.33 
> should be the safe option.

If that behavior was relied on for suspected (or real) bugs in the 
swiotlb code then i agree that we should do this change. (and fix any 
bugs if they still occur.)

	Ingo
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