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From:   Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@linux.intel.com>
To:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
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        =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgg==?= Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Fix IOMMU field not populated on device hot re-plug
Date:   Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:01:02 +0200
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Hi Baolu,

On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 9:41:23 AM CEST Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> Hi Baolu,
> 
> On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 3:29:40 AM CEST Lu Baolu wrote:
> > Hi Janusz,
> > 
> > On 9/2/19 4:37 PM, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> > >> I am not saying that keeping data is not acceptable. I just want to
> > >> check whether there are any other solutions.
> > > Then reverting 458b7c8e0dde and applying this patch still resolves the 
> issue
> > > for me.  No errors appear when mappings are unmapped on device close after 
> the
> > > device has been removed, and domain info preserved on device removal is
> > > successfully reused on device re-plug.
> > 
> > This patch doesn't look good to me although I agree that keeping data is
> > acceptable. 

Any progress with that?  Which mailing list should I watch for updates?

Thanks,
Janusz

> > It updates dev->archdata.iommu, but leaves the hardware
> > context/pasid table unchanged. This might cause problems somewhere.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Is there anything else I can do to help?
> > 
> > Can you please tell me how to reproduce the problem? 
> 
> The most simple way to reproduce the issue, assuming there are no non-Intel 
> graphics adapters installed, is to run the following shell commands:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # load i915 module
> modprobe i915
> # open an i915 device and keep it open in background
> cat /dev/dri/card0 >/dev/null &
> sleep 2
> # simulate device unplug
> echo 1 >/sys/class/drm/card0/device/remove
> # make the background process close the device on exit
> kill $!
> 
> Thanks,
> Janusz
> 
> 
> > Keeping the per
> > device domain info while device is unplugged is a bit dangerous because
> > info->dev might be a wild pointer. We need to work out a clean fix.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Janusz
> > > 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Baolu
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>