RE: RFC: IOMMU/AMD: Error Handling

2013-04-29 Thread Duran, Leo
I see... I suppose the trick is going to be how to 'filter' this non intended behavior (once, during OS boot). Thanks, Leo. > -Original Message- > From: Don Dutile [mailto:ddut...@redhat.com] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 4:42 PM > To: Duran, Leo > Cc: Suthikulpanit, Suravee; iommu@lists

Re: RFC: IOMMU/AMD: Error Handling

2013-04-29 Thread Don Dutile
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 (bi

RE: RFC: IOMMU/AMD: Error Handling

2013-04-29 Thread Duran, Leo
I'm wondering if resetting the IOMMU at init-time (once) would clear any BIOS induced noise. Leo > -Original Message- > From: iommu-boun...@lists.linux-foundation.org [mailto:iommu- > boun...@lists.linux-foundation.org] On Behalf Of Don Dutile > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 3:10 PM > To:

Re: RFC: IOMMU/AMD: Error Handling

2013-04-29 Thread Don Dutile
On 04/29/2013 03:45 PM, Suravee Suthikulanit wrote: Joerg, We are in the process of implementing AMD IOMMU error handling, and I would like some comments from you and the community. Currently, the AMD IOMMU driver only reports events from the event log in the dmesg, and does not try to handle

RFC: IOMMU/AMD: Error Handling

2013-04-29 Thread Suravee Suthikulanit
Joerg, We are in the process of implementing AMD IOMMU error handling, and I would like some comments from you and the community. Currently, the AMD IOMMU driver only reports events from the event log in the dmesg, and does not try to handle them in case of errors. AMD IOMMU errors can be c