linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v4 3/9] iommu/amd: Detect pre enabled translation

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Message-ID: <20160530032733.GC2488@x1.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 11:27:33 +0800
From:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:	Wan Zongshun <vw@...mu.org>
Cc:	joro@...tes.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vincent.wan@....com,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, dyoung@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [Patch v4 3/9] iommu/amd: Detect pre enabled translation

On 05/30/16 at 11:24am, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 05/28/16 at 08:49pm, Wan Zongshun wrote:
> In fact I am still debugging and trying to figure out what need be done
> further to stop the IO_PAGE_FAULT happened on ethernet network card. I
> kept changing code and adjust the patches. Up to now seems I still
> didn't figure out why. There must be something I didn't notice and
> everything will be fine as soon as I close that valve. With my
> understand pci bug scanning will detect each pci device and do the
 		 |_ bus
> initialization job like setting configuration space registers and
> control registers. After that we can safely re-init the pci device and
> re-install the new io-page tables, and this is how Joerg has done for
> vt-d fix for kdump if my understanding is correct. And I tried to do
> like that in this patchset, don't know why it doesn't work.