Re: inode->i_wb_list corruption.

From: Keith Packard
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 17:44:53 EST


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On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:19:34 -0500, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is the VT-d issue something in the hardware itself, or do you mean if
> you have it enabled in the kernel? We've had the intel IOMMU disabled
> by default in the Fedora kernels for a while now. At least since before
> 3.2 was released.

I don't know for sure; David Woodhouse gave a scary presentation
yesterday that makes me unsure of what happens when IOMMU is disabled in
the kernel, given that much of the hardware is setup by the BIOS.

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