Re: 3.6.11 AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out

From: Udo van den Heuvel
Date: Wed Jan 23 2013 - 09:19:13 EST


On 2013-01-23 00:29, Suravee Suthikulanit wrote:
> I sent out a patch
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135889686523524&w=2) which should
> implement
> the workaround for AMD processor family15h model 10-1Fh erratum 746 in
> the IOMMU driver.
> In your case, the output from "setpci -s 00:00.02 F4.w" is "0050" which
> tells me that BIOS doesn't
> implement the work around. After patching, you should see the following
> message in "dmesg".
>
> "AMD-Vi: Applying erratum 746 for IOMMU at 0000:00:00.2"

Thanks!
I'll check for that after these messages.

> The following patch slightly modify
> the code to always issue "COMPLETION_WAIT" after every command. This
> should help increasing the chance of reproducing
> the issue.

Should I test with these two patches together?
Or should I apply the first one first and then see what the second can help?


Kind regards,
Udo
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