Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757369AbXFVVgx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:36:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753765AbXFVVgq (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:36:46 -0400 Received: from sca-es-mail-2.Sun.COM ([192.18.43.133]:39259 "EHLO sca-es-mail-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753545AbXFVVgo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:36:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:38:09 -0700 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture In-reply-to: <200706222328.21259.ak@suse.de> To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , Linux Kernel Mailing List Reply-to: Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM Message-id: <467C4141.9010507@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200706221219.16243.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <20070622193124.GG5051@rhun.smartcity.com> <20070622213327.69663288@the-village.bc.nu> <200706222328.21259.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 14 Andi Kleen wrote: > > It's probably too late then. It could also interfere with other operations. > If anything the GART should be disabled during kexec shutdown. Perhaps we just > need a suitable suspend function that does that. Eric, any preferences? how about kdump? do we have chance to call that suspend func? YH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/