linux-kernel - Re: possible dmar_init_reserved

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:39:09 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        g@...lgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rwright@....com
Subject: Re: possible dmar_init_reserved_ranges() error

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 07:21:39PM -0800, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> This sounds reasonable, if we can reserve from the host bridge apertures 
> it should take care of hot-plug cases as well, and should simply how the
> reservation is made.

Agreed, I have this on my todo list already since I converted the AMD
IOMMU driver to the iova allocator. Just reserving the pci windows is
much better than what we are currently doing.


	Joerg