From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756648Ab1E3U5Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 16:57:16 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.179.29]:44276 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871Ab1E3U5O (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 16:57:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4DE404A5.1040400@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:57:09 -0700 From: Mike Travis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Chris Wright , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Mike Habeck , Dimitri Sivanich , Derek Fults , Jesse Barnes , stable@kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Intel pci: Fix various problems with Intel IOMMU code References: <20110528181501.896092225@gulag1.americas.sgi.com> <1306627925.2029.341.camel@i7.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1306627925.2029.341.camel@i7.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/28/2011 05:12 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 13:15 -0500, Mike Travis wrote: >> Various problems exist in the Intel IOMMU PCI driver when >> using DMA remapping in 1:1 identity mode on UV systems and >> devices cannot address all of physical memory. >> >> This patchset addresses those problems. > > Patches 1-6 applied to iommu-2.6.git. Please test. Thanks. > > Please note for future reference that 'From:' lines such as the one in > your patch 1/7 should be *first* in the body of your email. The git-am > tool doesn't find them and set the authorship if you put them with the > Signed-off-bys. Also please avoid putting whitespace at the beginning of > every line of your commit comments. > > I still hate patch 7, but the point was that I wouldn't have to care > about it. Once your patches 1-6 are included in known stable releases > that your SCU can recognise, it can just pass 'iommu=pt' for those. > > It's only the "probably buggy" kernels with older release numbers that > you'll pass 'forcedac,pt64' to, so your mission is to get patch 7 or > some variant of it accepted into *those* kernels. > Thanks David, all noted. The From: thing is swallowed by the quilt mail command if it's first. I'll see if I can't fix that. Cheers.