Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:53:28 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Changing the AMD IOMMU API path to work in an atomic context which is necessary for any custom drivers using the IOMMU API while holding a spinlock. |
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 02:28:49PM +0000, murphyt7@tcd.ie wrote: > From: Tom Murphy <murphyt7@tcd.ie> > > --- > > This patch allows the IOMMU API path in the AMD driver to be called from an atomic context. > This is useful for anyone building a driver which needs to call the IOMMU API while holding a spinlock.
I don't think that is a good idea. Please point to the code in the driver and we can't probably find a better solution.
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