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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/vt-d: Make DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED a config setting
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To:     Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
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From:   Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
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On 2022/6/14 04:38, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:13:09AM -0500, Steve Wahl wrote:
>> To support up to 64 sockets with 10 DMAR units each (640), make the
>> value of DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED adjustable by a config variable,
>> CONFIG_DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED, and make it's default 1024 when MAXSMP is
>> set.
>>
>> If the available hardware exceeds DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED (previously set
>> to MAX_IO_APICS, or 128), it causes these messages: "DMAR: Failed to
>> allocate seq_id", "DMAR: Parse DMAR table failure.", and "x2apic: IRQ
>> remapping doesn't support X2APIC mode x2apic disabled"; and the system
>> fails to boot properly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Note that we could not find a reason for connecting
>> DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED to MAX_IO_APICS as was done previously.  Perhaps
>> it seemed like the two would continue to match on earlier processors.
>> There doesn't appear to be kernel code that assumes that the value of
>> one is related to the other.
>>
>> v2: Make this value a config option, rather than a fixed constant.  The default
>> values should match previous configuration except in the MAXSMP case.  Keeping the
>> value at a power of two was requested by Kevin Tian.
>>
>>   drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
>>   include/linux/dmar.h        | 6 +-----
>>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Baolu do you have this queued up for v5.20? Also do you have a public repo where
> you keep the vt-d changes before sending Joerg the patches for a release?

Yes. I have started to queue patches for v5.20. They could be found on
github:

https://github.com/LuBaolu/intel-iommu/commits/vtd-next-for-v5.20

Best regards,
baolu