Re: [PATCH] iommu: moving initialization earlier

[Shuah Khan]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 06:51:52PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> The iommu_init() initializes IOMMU internal structures and data
>>> required for the IOMMU API as iommu_group_alloc().
>>> It is registered as a subsys_initcall now.
>>>
>>> One of the IOMMU users is going to be a PCI subsystem on POWER.
>>> It discovers new IOMMU tables during the PCI scan so the logical
>>> place to call iommu_group_alloc() is the moment when a new group
>>> is discovered. However PCI scan is done from subsys_initcall hook
>>> as IOMMU does so PCI hook can be (and is) called before the IOMMU one.
>>>
>>> The patch moves IOMMU subsystem initialization one step earlier
>>> to make sure that IOMMU is initialized before PCI scan begins.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Applied, thanks.
>
> Joerg,
>
> Could you please consider this patch for stable releases.

The patch applies cleanly only on 3.6.y which is EOL. Guess I am out
of luck with this patch.

-- Shuah

-- Shuah
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