Re: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:42:31AM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:

> Yes, I agree that pci_dev->sysdata can;t be removed. Even we (IOMMU)
> were dependent on this field but somehow this field is being
> overwritten to point to pci_bus's->sysdata and hence IOMMU was
> failing. Earlier it was overwritten to NULL and hence we were not
> failing but now it is overwritten to non-NULL and hence we fail.

Do you know which commit caused that change?

> My therory is that we don;t need to copy pci_bus's->sysdata to 
> pci_dev's->sysdata. Below patch solves my problem.
> Any objection to below patch?

I will give it a spin to verify it works for me, but in general I am
wary of making such changes unless we can verify (read: audit) that
they have no adverse side effects *on all architectures*.

Cheers,
Muli

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