Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/vt-d: skip RMRR entries that fail the sanity check

2019-12-23 Thread Barret Rhoden via iommu
On 12/17/19 2:19 PM, Chen, Yian wrote: Regardless, I have two other patches in this series that could resolve the problem for me and probably other people.  I'd just like at least one of the three patches to get merged so that my machine boots when the original commit f036c7fa0ab6

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/vt-d: skip RMRR entries that fail the sanity check

2019-12-17 Thread Chen, Yian
On 12/16/2019 11:35 AM, Barret Rhoden wrote: On 12/16/19 2:07 PM, Chen, Yian wrote: On 12/11/2019 11:46 AM, Barret Rhoden wrote: RMRR entries describe memory regions that are DMA targets for devices outside the kernel's control. RMRR entries that fail the sanity check are pointing to

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/vt-d: skip RMRR entries that fail the sanity check

2019-12-16 Thread Barret Rhoden via iommu
On 12/16/19 2:07 PM, Chen, Yian wrote: On 12/11/2019 11:46 AM, Barret Rhoden wrote: RMRR entries describe memory regions that are DMA targets for devices outside the kernel's control. RMRR entries that fail the sanity check are pointing to regions of memory that the firmware did not tell the

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iommu/vt-d: skip RMRR entries that fail the sanity check

2019-12-16 Thread Chen, Yian
On 12/11/2019 11:46 AM, Barret Rhoden wrote: RMRR entries describe memory regions that are DMA targets for devices outside the kernel's control. RMRR entries that fail the sanity check are pointing to regions of memory that the firmware did not tell the kernel are reserved or otherwise should

[PATCH 1/3] iommu/vt-d: skip RMRR entries that fail the sanity check

2019-12-11 Thread Barret Rhoden via iommu
RMRR entries describe memory regions that are DMA targets for devices outside the kernel's control. RMRR entries that fail the sanity check are pointing to regions of memory that the firmware did not tell the kernel are reserved or otherwise should not be used. Instead of aborting DMAR