Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix dmar fault interrupt problems

[Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 10:13 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Suresh Siddha (suresh.b.siddha@intel.com) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 00:28 -0800, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Here are patches to fix the following problems regarding dmar fault interrupt.
> > > 
> > > - No dmar fault event is notified in x2apic cluster mode
> > > - Changing IRQ affinity of dmar fault interrupt causes "No irq handler
> > >   for vector (irq XX)" message and dmar fault interrupts are never
> > >   notified after that.
> > 
> > Kenji, In addition to these two, there are couple of more patches that
> > are needed to fix the kexec/kdump issue that we are debugging on RH
> > bugzilla.
> > 
> > I will post all these 4 patches shortly. I already noticed and queued
> > the second patch (dmar irq migration)  you mentioned.
> 
> And one of them (the additional call to flushing existing dmar faults)
> is not needed.

yes, that patch is not needed for the current kexec/kdump issue. But
nevertheless that is an issue that needs to be addressed aswell.

thanks,
suresh