Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] allow fallback to swiotlb on hw iommu init failures | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:10:31 +0100 |
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Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> writes:
> This short series gives us the ability to allocate the swiotlb and then > conditionally free it if we discover it isn't needed. This allows us to > put swiotlb to use when the hw iommu fails to initialize properly. > > This needs some changes to the bootmem allocator to give the ability to > free reserved bootmem directly to the page allocator after bootmem is > torn down.
You forgot to state what motivated you to that change?
-Andi
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