RE: [PATCH] Suspend and Resume Support for Intel IOMMU

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 12:07:56 EST


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:28 -0800, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> >> >
> >> > +static int vtd_enabled;
> >> ..
> >> > +static int iommu_resume(struct sys_device *dev)
> >> > +{
> >> ..
> >> > + if (!vtd_enabled)
> >> > + return 0;
> >>
> >> Hmm. Why do this?
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be much more logical to only register the
> >> iommu_sysdev if the thing is enabled, rather than having an
> >> odd flag that gets tested at runtime?
> >
> >The sysdev_class_register() could be done straight in
> >intel_iommu_init(), because that gets called by pci_iommu_init()
> >which is an fs_initcall() - so all the sysdev facilities should
> >be up and running already.
>
> That was my original concern. I'll remove the vtd_enabled flag and
> register device_iommu in intel_iommu_init() in an updated patch.

For some reason most of this thread is missing from my mailbox. Did you
ever submit this 'updated patch' that you threatened...?

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation

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