Re: [PATCH 0/2] iommu/vt-d: Keep RMRR mappings around on driver unbind
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 01 2014 - 18:35:19 EST
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:02:01PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is a patch-set to fix an issue recently discovered when
> the Intel IOMMU is in use with devices that need RMRR
> mappings.
>
> The problem is that the RMRR mappings are destroyed when the
> device driver is unbound from the device, causing DMAR
> faults.
>
> To solve this problem a device driver core change is
> necessary to catch the right point in time for the IOMMU
> code to destroy any mappings for a device.
>
> With this patch-set the RMRR mappings are only destroyed
> when the device is actually removed from the system.
>
> Please review.
I have no objection to these, do you want me to take them through my
tree? Or if they are going through some other one feel free to add:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To the first patch.
thanks,
greg k-h
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