RE: [PATCH v3 02/11] iommu/vt-d: Remove clearing translation data in disable_dmar_iommu()

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 3:47 PM
> 
> The disable_dmar_iommu() is called when IOMMU initialization fails or
> the IOMMU is hot-removed from the system. In both cases, there is no
> need to clear the IOMMU translation data structures for devices.
> 
> On the initialization path, the device probing only happens after the
> IOMMU is initialized successfully, hence there're no translation data
> structures.
> 
> On the hot-remove path, there is no real use case where the IOMMU is
> hot-removed, but the devices that it manages are still alive in the
> system. The translation data structures were torn down during device
> release, hence there's no need to repeat it in IOMMU hot-remove path
> either. This removes the unnecessary code and only leaves a check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You probably overlooked my last comment on kexec:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/BL1PR11MB52711A71AD9F11B7AE42694C8CAC9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

I think my question is still not answered.