linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] doc: swiotlb: iommu/dma: Clarify swiotlb=force option applies only to dma-direct

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Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 14:03:26 -0700
From: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@...gle.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org, 
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, petr@...arici.cz, mhklinux@...look.com, 
	robin.murphy@....com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] doc: swiotlb: iommu/dma: Clarify swiotlb=force
 option applies only to dma-direct

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 1:18 PM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
>
> So, I know get_maintainer.pl doesn't work great for files that are used
> by a lot of subsystems, but it doesn't seem _super_ hard to find
> relevant maintainers for this stuff.
>
> There are many IOMMU and swiotlb folks in MAINTAINERS who aren't cc'd
> here.  I'd be great to get an ack from those folks.
> iommu@...ts.linux.dev seems to pop up pretty frequently.
>
> I'd also have zero objections to a patch to:
>
>         Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
>
> that goes through another tree.

Sorry about that. I did manually CC iommu@...ts.linux.dev on the
original version of this patch after a thread [1] on this topic on the
iommu list, but I neglected to manually add it for this v2. There will
be a v3 for the second patch, so I'll make sure to include the iommu
list then.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABdmKX1HdXccWp9chz-Y_-Hh5TPry-4WRcVf4fUXKV=Og3dVTg@mail.gmail.com/