linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Handle memory shortage on pasid table allocation

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Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:14:08 +0300
From:   Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, ashok.raj@...el.com,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Handle memory shortage on pasid table
 allocation

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 02:24:16PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Pasid table memory allocation could return failure due to memory
> shortage. Limit the pasid table size to 1MiB because current 8MiB
> contiguous physical memory allocation can be hard to come by. W/o
> a PASID table, the device could continue to work with only shared
> virtual memory impacted. So, let's go ahead with context mapping
> even the memory allocation for pasid table failed.
> 
> Fixes: cc580e41260d ("iommu/vt-d: Per PCI device pasid table interfaces")
> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>
> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>

This fixes the issue I was seeing, thanks!

Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>