Re: AMD IOMMU causing filesystem corruption

From: Samuel Sieb
Date: Mon Apr 03 2017 - 23:46:00 EST


On 04/03/2017 02:39 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
You have a system based on the AMD Stoney platform, on which the PCI-ATS
feature of the GPU is broken, as we recently found out.

Can you please test whether the attached patch fixes the issue on your
machine?

Yes, that works, thank you!

Now I'm curious what Windows does. Either they don't use that feature or they already knew to avoid it. In which case, why did AMD take so long to let the kernel developers know?