Re: Seeing DMAR errors after multiple load/unload with SR-IOV

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 08:10 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * David Woodhouse (dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 06:38 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > I think we still leak the list entry though.  Bottom line is that we
> > > need to handle hotplug ADD_DEVICE and DEL_DEVICE notifications.  We
> > > happen to pick up ADD_DEVICE by accident, but it's all pretty sloppy. 
> > 
> > Yeah, keeping a list of possible stale 'pci_dev' pointers is stupid. We
> > should figure out the matching DMAR unit directly from the ACPI table at
> > ADD_DEVICE time, and store it in pdev->archdata.iommu.
> > 
> > I saw patches which were going in that direction...
> 
> Cool, where are they?  I'm working on something similar, and missed them.

[PATCH] pci, dmar: Update dmar units devices list during hotplug

Alex was working on it.

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