Re: [PATCH v11 04/10] iommu/vt-d: functions to copy data from old mem

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 17:52 +0800, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
> Add some functions to copy the data from old kernel.
> These functions are used to copy context tables and page tables.
> 
> To avoid calling iounmap between spin_lock_irqsave and 
> spin_unlock_irqrestore,
> use a link here, store the pointers , and then use iounmap to free 
> them in
> another place.
> 
> Li, Zhen-hua:
>     The functions and logics.

Surely this isn't specific to the Intel IOMMU? Shouldn't it live
elsewhere â either in generic IOMMU code or perhaps in generic kexec
support code?

Don't we need to solve the same kexec problem on *all* platforms with
an IOMMU, and won't they all need something like this?

And I think you're misusing VTD_PAGE_{SHIFT,MASK} when you should be
using the normal PAGE_{SHIFT,MASK}. And shouldn't physical addresses be
phys_addr_t?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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