> On 4 Apr 2019, at 07:49, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> I did a sanity test from my end. The test machine fails to boot. I
> haven't seen any valuable kernel log. It results in a purple screen.
> 
> Best regards,
> Lu Baolu
> 
> On 3/29/19 11:26 PM, James Sewart wrote:
>> Hey Lu,
>> I’ve attached a preliminary v3, if you could take a look and run some tests
>> that would be great.
>> Since v2 i’ve added your default domain type patches, the new device_group
>> handler, and incorporated Jacob’s feedback.
>>> On 28 Mar 2019, at 18:37, James Sewart <jamessewart@arista.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Lu,
>>> 
>>>> On 26 Mar 2019, at 01:24, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi James,
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/25/19 8:57 PM, James Sewart wrote:
>>>>>>> Theres an issue that if we choose to alloc a new resv_region with type
>>>>>>> IOMMU_RESV_DIRECT, we will need to refactor intel_iommu_put_resv_regions
>>>>>>> to free this entry type which means refactoring the rmrr regions in
>>>>>>> get_resv_regions. Should this work be in this patchset?
>>>>>> Do you mean the rmrr regions are not allocated in get_resv_regions, but
>>>>>> are freed in put_resv_regions? I think we should fix this in this patch
>>>>>> set since this might impact the device passthrough if we don't do it.
>>>>> They’re not allocated and not freed currently, only type IOMMU_RESV_MSI is
>>>>> freed in put_resv_regions. If we allocate a new resv_region with type
>>>>> IOMMU_RESV_DIRECT for the isa region, then it won’t be freed. If we modify
>>>>> put_resv_regions to free type IOMMU_RESV_DIRECT, then we will try to free
>>>>> the static RMRR regions.
>>>>> Either the ISA region is static and not freed as with my implementation,
>>>>> or the RMRR regions are converted to be allocated on each call to
>>>>> get_resv_regions and freed in put_resv_regions.
>>>> 
>>>> By the way, there's another way in my mind. Let's add a new region type
>>>> for LPC devices, e.x. IOMMU_RESV_LPC, and then handle it in the same way
>>>> as those MSI regions. Just FYI.
>>> 
>>> This solution would require adding some extra code to
>>> iommu_group_create_direct_mappings as currently only type
>>> IOMMU_RESV_DIRECT is identity mapped, other types are only reserved.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Lu Baolu
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> James.
>> Cheers,
>> James.