From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753244AbZHJJTm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:19:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753209AbZHJJTl (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:19:41 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f196.google.com ([209.85.222.196]:44582 "EHLO mail-pz0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753142AbZHJJTl (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:19:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ayTspesLy0yCAH5mNebeomrGNHQ6UgNBneC9RMMcHa2qaLC1pM5OGu6HpomJFR0GoK cjqRa/Rn0eSBc1cYL31G6YIIDaiepT4UO4n/4EwexK2nOVmXZPEt+laV3DKu5pNIOiAE n0fQ308whwYa656O3O3vjhtRvLpxCNlurfd5E= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1249895639.4919.133.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <3877989d0907310129p29dd5039p18563946b9be8099@mail.gmail.com> <1249369794.9324.18.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <3877989d0908092321h56afcc7ve9fe39fa68f42a48@mail.gmail.com> <1249895639.4919.133.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:19:41 +0800 Message-ID: <3877989d0908100219p51c39004gb40b63cd88735e97@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC patch] return early if all dmar HW unit ignored From: Luming Yu To: David Woodhouse Cc: LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:21 +0800, Luming Yu wrote: >> >> But I don't know why I were seeing faults if all dmar units were >> ignored? Surely that shouldn't happen? Will double check and >> investigate. > > It shouldn't happen -- I suspect that you didn't actually mark them > _all_ ignored? What happens if you modify my patch just to mark the > offending unit as ignored, but don't also apply your patch? Does it boot > then? Just with your patch, it boot without any problem. Add my patch in the thread, it boots too, and I see total 4 entries parsed...