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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kristen.c.accardi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 14:16:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070909111619.GF31099@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070908200523.GA16204@askeshav-devel.jf.intel.com>

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:05:24PM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:

> Subject: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

This patch feels like a huge hack. See below.

> This patch removes sysdata from pci_dev struct and creates a new
> field called sys_data which is exclusively used by IOMMU driver to
> keep its per device context pointer.

Hmpf, why is this needed? with the pci_sysdata work that recently went
into mainline we have a void *iommu member in pci_sysdata which should
be all that's needed. Please elaborate if it's not enough for your
needs.

Thanks,
Muli

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-09 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-08 20:05 Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-09 11:16 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2007-09-10 15:43   ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-09 17:51     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-09-11 17:22       ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-09 17:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-11 17:42   ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-10 20:25     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-09-11 20:43       ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-12 19:28     ` [patch][Intel-IOMMU] " Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-11 19:48       ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-12 21:55         ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-11 22:05           ` [BUG:] forcedeth: MCP55 not allowing DHCP Casey Dahlin
2007-09-18  1:59             ` Casey Dahlin
2007-09-13  1:29         ` [patch][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-09-14 16:30           ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-25 17:07             ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-03 21:13         ` [patch take 2][Intel-IOMMU] " Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-04  1:19           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-04  1:36             ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-04  3:39               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-04 19:20                 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-10-05  3:08                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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