Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:48:55 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
        iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
        Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] iommu: Detach device from domain when removed
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 07:55:55PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On s390, this eventually leads to a kernel panic when binding the device
> again to its non-vfio PCI driver, because of the missing arch-specific
> cleanup in detach_dev. On x86, the detach_dev callback will also not be
> called directly, but there is a notifier that will catch
> BUS_NOTIFY_REMOVED_DEVICE and eventually do the cleanup. Other
> architectures w/o the notifier probably have at least some kind of memory
> leak in this scenario, so a general fix would be nice.

This notifier is not arch-specific, but registered against the bus the
iommu-ops are set for. Why does it not run on s390?


	Joerg

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