Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:12:45 +0800 | From | "Li, ZhenHua" <> | Subject | Re: [v4 0/8] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support - IOMMU part |
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Hi Feng Wu, In my patchset, I created a new member ir_table->base_old_phys; In the normal kernel, everything is the same. In kdump kernel, ir_table->base is used for a buffer, and ir_table->base_old_phys is the physical address of the tables used by the old kernel, also being used by the current kernel.
I did this in modify_irte():
set_64bit(&irte->high, irte_modified->high); + +#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP + if (is_kdump_kernel()) + __iommu_update_old_irte(iommu, index); +#endif __iommu_flush_cache(iommu, irte, sizeof(*irte));
Here the irte tables are stored in two places: iommu->ir_table->base : It is a buffer in kdump kernel, which is the running kernel; iommu->ir_table->base_old_phys : It is the irte used by the old kernel;
And function __iommu_update_old_irte is used to save the content of iommu->ir_table->base to iommu->ir_table->base_old_phys. Because in kdump kernel, the vt-d is using ir_table->base_old_phys, not ir_table->base, so we need to copy the updated ir_table->base to ir_table->base_old_phys .
Thanks Zhenhua
On 04/02/2015 07:28 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:06:56PM +0800, Feng Wu wrote: >> VT-d Posted-Interrupts is an enhancement to CPU side Posted-Interrupt. >> With VT-d Posted-Interrupts enabled, external interrupts from >> direct-assigned devices can be delivered to guests without VMM >> intervention when guest is running in non-root mode. >> >> You can find the VT-d Posted-Interrtups Spec. in the following URL: >> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/vt-directed-io-spec.html >> >> This series was part of http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.iommu/7708. To make things clear, send out IOMMU part here. > > Besides the modify_irte() changes I asked for the patch-set looks good. > I just have some concerns what these changes mean for the VT-d kdump > improvements Zhen-Hua Li is working on. Can you please discuss the > implications of having both patch-sets applied with him and make sure > they work together? I think in its current form your patch-set breaks > the kdump support patches. I added Zhen-Hua to Cc. > > Thanks, > > Joerg >
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