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Message-ID: <1307460801.24181.51.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:33:20 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	padmanabh ratnakar <pratnakarlx@...il.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	iommu <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Seeing DMAR errors after multiple load/unload with SR-IOV

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 08:10 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * David Woodhouse (dwmw2@...radead.org) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 06:38 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > I think we still leak the list entry though.  Bottom line is that we
> > > need to handle hotplug ADD_DEVICE and DEL_DEVICE notifications.  We
> > > happen to pick up ADD_DEVICE by accident, but it's all pretty sloppy. 
> > 
> > Yeah, keeping a list of possible stale 'pci_dev' pointers is stupid. We
> > should figure out the matching DMAR unit directly from the ACPI table at
> > ADD_DEVICE time, and store it in pdev->archdata.iommu.
> > 
> > I saw patches which were going in that direction...
> 
> Cool, where are they?  I'm working on something similar, and missed them.

[PATCH] pci, dmar: Update dmar units devices list during hotplug

Alex was working on it.

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dwmw2

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