On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:39:59AM -0700, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> Ever since commit 091d42e43d ("iommu/vt-d: Copy translation tables from
> old kernel")
Please put the commit-information into a Fixes: tag next time. I'll
added a Fixes tag to the commit this time.
> the kdump kernel copies the IOMMU context tables from the
> previous kernel. Each device mappings will be destroyed once the driver
> for the respective device takes over.
>
> This unfortunately breaks the workflow of mapping and unmapping a new
> context to the IOMMU. The mapping function assumes that either:
>
> 1) Unmapping did the proper IOMMU flushing and it only ever flush if the
> IOMMU unit supports caching invalid entries.
> 2) The system just booted and the initialization code took care of
> flushing all IOMMU caches.
>
> This assumption is not true for the kdump kernel since the context
> tables have been copied from the previous kernel and translations could
> have been cached ever since. So make sure to flush the IOTLB as well
> when we destroy these old copied mappings.
>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <[email protected]>
Applied to iommu/fixes, thanks.
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