On 4/29/2013 4:42 PM, Don Dutile wrote:
On 04/29/2013 04:34 PM, Duran, Leo wrote:
I'm wondering if resetting the IOMMU at init-time (once) would clear
any BIOS induced noise.
Leo
Well, depends what you mean by 'reset'....
(a) setting it up for OS use is effectively a reset, but doesn't
quiesce a device
doing dma reads of a (bios-setup) queue. then the noisy messages
begin
(b) disable the iommu, and then the dma just occurs... and bad for
writes, potentially.
Similar issue is being reported & worked for kdump, where device are
still
doing DMA while the system is trying to 'reset' to the kexec'd kernel,
and
take a crash dump.
Solution: stop devices from doing dma... but some you _want_ enabled
throughout...
like keyboard & mouse via usb controller, so you get to pick
os from
grub... not so for kexec...
so, again, for isolation faults.... let the hw do its job -- isolate
and throttle/silence the fault messages on a per-device, time-duration
heuristic
so the system can get through boot-up where enough OS is init'd
(drivers started)
to stop the temporary noise.
This sounds more like issue with the order of how things are initialized
in the system.
If so, could we separate the code which enabling of IOMMU error
logging/handling and
delay it until we are certain that systems are stable?
Suravee
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