Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Turn off translations at shutdown

From: Deepa Dinamani
Date: Fri Nov 08 2019 - 17:49:07 EST


> > > For VMM live update case, we should be able to detect and bypass
> > > the shutdown that Deepa introduced here, so keep IOMMU still operating?
> >
> > Is that a 'yes' to Deepa's "if someone wants to make it conditional, we
> > can do that" ?
>
> Yes, I think so. Thanks!

Are these changes already part of the kernel like avoiding shutdown of
the passthrough devices? device_shutdown() doesn't seem to be doing
anything selectively as of now.

Thanks,
Deepa