Re: IO_PAGE_FAULTs on unity mapped regions during amd_iommu_init()in Linux 3.4

[Joerg Roedel]

Hi Shuah,

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:33:30AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Access to these ranges continues to work with no errors until AMD IOMMU
> driver disables and re-enables IOMMU in enable_iommus(). These faults
> don't persist and appear between the enable_iommus() call and before
> amd_iommu_init() gets done printing "AMD-Vi: Lazy IO/TLB flushing
> enabled" message.

Hmm, okay. I had a look into the v3.4 sources. This looks like a race
condition. The IOMMUs are enabled in amd_iommu_init_hardware() but the
unity-mapped regions are created later in amd_iommu_init_dma_ops(). This
leaves a small window where the page-faults happen that you see.

But I am not sure why this doesn't hit on 3.7 and above. The race is
still there. Anyway, definitly something that needs to be fixed.


	Joerg


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