Re: Seeing DMAR errors after multiple load/unload with SR-IOV

From: Chris Wright
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 11:36:15 EST


* David Woodhouse (dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 08:10 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * David Woodhouse (dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 06:38 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > > I think we still leak the list entry though. Bottom line is that we
> > > > need to handle hotplug ADD_DEVICE and DEL_DEVICE notifications. We
> > > > happen to pick up ADD_DEVICE by accident, but it's all pretty sloppy.
> > >
> > > Yeah, keeping a list of possible stale 'pci_dev' pointers is stupid. We
> > > should figure out the matching DMAR unit directly from the ACPI table at
> > > ADD_DEVICE time, and store it in pdev->archdata.iommu.
> > >
> > > I saw patches which were going in that direction...
> >
> > Cool, where are they? I'm working on something similar, and missed them.
>
> [PATCH] pci, dmar: Update dmar units devices list during hotplug

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder.

thanks,
-chris
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