Re: WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

* Guenter Roeck (linux@roeck-us.net) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:05:39PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Joerg, David, iommu list]
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > I started seeing this problem after updating the BIOS trying fix another issue,
> > > though I may have missed it earlier.
> > >
> > > I understand this is a BIOS bug. Would be great if someone can pass this on
> > > to Intel BIOS engineers.
> > 
> > Maybe.  It'd be nice if Linux handled it better, though.
> > 
> If anyone has an idea how to do that, I'll be happy to write a patch.

I'm not sure there's much you can do.  The BIOS is saying there's a DMAR
unit, and then saying the registers are at addr 0x0.  The kernel is
simply warning you about the invalid DMAR table entry.

One thing I've seen is the BIOS zeroing the base register address when
VT-d is disabled in BIOS.  So, Guenter, a "fix" may be simply enabling
VT-d in the BIOS.

thanks,
-chris