linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] x86: gart: fix the HW IOMMU initialization rewrite breakage

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:52:13 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	yinghai@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86: gart: fix the HW IOMMU initialization rewrite breakage

This patchset fixes GART issues due to the commit
75f1cdf1dda92cae037ec848ae63690d91913eac (x86: Handle HW IOMMU
initialization failure gracefully).

This is a revised version of:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126027050409121&w=2

I replaced the first patch with a simpler one (*1). With the new
patch, systems that use swiotlb temporarily allocate more memory than
they do now. But swiotlb uses any area in ZONE_DMA32 so I doubt that
it matters. If swiotlb can't allocate memory, the system panics. So
there is no danger of data corruption (or something really bad). We
can use more complicated tricks (such as I posted before) when we find
that this simple approach doesn't work.

(*1) http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125905247710259&w=2

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