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SubjectRe: [RFC patch] return early if all dmar HW unit ignored
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On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:29 +0800, Luming Yu wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> When debugging an IOMMU problem, I noticed it should be much more safe
> to return early than late if all remapping HW unit are ignored.
> To figure out what device causes the iommu problem on my linux box:
> hp-compaq dc7800, I tried to mark all dmar HW
> unit ignored,but still got a lot of unxepcted dmar_fault. So I think
> the proposed patch make sense. The next step is to
> add a boot option to make dmar HW units selectable enable/disable individually.

Why were you seeing faults if all dmar units were ignored? Surely that
shouldn't happen?

This patch doesn't make a lot of sense on its own -- can you show what
you were intending to do as the 'next step'?

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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