From: Alex Williamson Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Fix scatterlist offset handling Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:18:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20171117091814.6673aecf@t450s.home> References: <644c3e01654f8bd48d669c36e424959d6ef0e27e.1506607370.git.robin.murphy@arm.com> <1507035334.29211.105.camel@infradead.org> <20171006144309.GA30803@8bytes.org> <20171106104709.06b38f7c@jacob-builder> <20171115155456.141a6dc8@jacob-builder> <20171116143244.2583d044@t450s.home> <20171116210933.GA53016@otc-nc-03> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: leedom-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, herbert-lOAM2aK0SrRLBo1qDEOMRrpzq4S04n8Q@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, linux-crypto-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, David Woodhouse , Harsh-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org To: "Raj, Ashok" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171116210933.GA53016@otc-nc-03> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:09:33 -0800 "Raj, Ashok" wrote: > Hi Alex > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 02:32:44PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:54:56 -0800 > > Jacob Pan wrote: > > > > > Hi Alex and all, > > > > > > Just wondering if you could merge Robin's patch for the next rc. From > > > all our testing, this seems to be a solid fix and should be included in > > > the stable releases as well. > > > > Hi Jacob, > > > > Sorry, this wasn't on my radar, I only scanned for patches back through > > about when Joerg refreshed his next branch (others on the list speak up > > if I didn't pickup your patches for the v4.15 merge window). > > > > This patch makes sense to me and I'm glad you were able to work through > > the anomaly Harsh saw in testing as an unrelated issue, but... > > > > > > What do we do about this? I certainly can't rip out large page support > > and put a stable tag on the patch. I'm not really spotting what's > > wrong with large page support here, other than the comment about it > > being a mess. Suggestions? Thanks, > > > > Largepage seems to work and i don't think we need to rip it out. When > Harsh tested it at one point we thought disabling super-page seemed to make > the problem go away. Jacob tested and we still saw the need for Robin's patch. > > Yes, the function looks humongous but i don't think we should wait for that > before this merge. Ok. Who wants to toss in review and testing sign-offs? Clearly there's been a lot more eyes and effort on this patch than reflected in the original posting. I'll add a stable cc. Thanks, Alex