Re: [PATCH]Make the intel-iommu_wait_op macro work when jiffies are not running

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Mon May 12 2008 - 16:43:46 EST


On Monday, May 12, 2008 1:41 pm mark gross wrote:
> The following patch changes the intel-iommu.c code to use the TSC
> instead of jiffies for detecting bad DMAR functionality. Some systems
> with bad bios's have been seen to hang in early boot spinning in the
> IOMMU_WAIT_IO macro. This patch will replace the forever spin with a
> call to panic.
>
>
> diffstat:
> $ diffstat patches/wait_op_tsc.patch
> intel-iommu.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --mgross
>
> Signed-off-by:mark gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to the 'for-linus' tree.

Thanks,
Jesse
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