RE: [PATCH 1/3] AMD x86 quirks: Quirk for enabling IOMMUv2 PCfeature

From: Kinney, Steven
Date: Mon Jan 28 2013 - 09:59:22 EST


Hi Joerg,

It was disabled for a reason that does not pertain to IOMMUv2 PC static counts (reading from the ICounter associated with the selected bank/counter). Testing with perf shows expected results.

Thanks,

Steve

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From: Joerg Roedel [mailto:joro@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:29 AM
To: Kinney, Steven
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] AMD x86 quirks: Quirk for enabling IOMMUv2 PC feature

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:20:56PM -0600, Steven L. Kinney wrote:
> From: "Steven L. Kinney" <steven.kinney@xxxxxxx>
>
> Original code base by Andreas Herrmann at AMD with minor changes.

Why is it safe to enable this feature when it was disabled by BIOS? Was it disabled for no reason?


Joerg



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