Re: agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least doit at KERN_CRIT

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > IOMMU off means very bad stuff may happen, like data corruption on 
> > your hard drives. At least tells users this is serious...
> ouch. Please at minimum lets turn this into a panic(), but best would be 
> to trim memory in this case, hm?

Are you suggesting to panic on all 64bit machines having more than 4G RAM 
without IOMMU turned on? Why, if swiotlb can still work nicely in such 
situations?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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