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Message-ID: <20150803154855.GI14980@8bytes.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:48:55 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] iommu: Detach device from domain when removed
from group
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 07:55:55PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On s390, this eventually leads to a kernel panic when binding the device
> again to its non-vfio PCI driver, because of the missing arch-specific
> cleanup in detach_dev. On x86, the detach_dev callback will also not be
> called directly, but there is a notifier that will catch
> BUS_NOTIFY_REMOVED_DEVICE and eventually do the cleanup. Other
> architectures w/o the notifier probably have at least some kind of memory
> leak in this scenario, so a general fix would be nice.
This notifier is not arch-specific, but registered against the bus the
iommu-ops are set for. Why does it not run on s390?
Joerg
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