Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/vt-d: Make DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED a config setting

[Baolu Lu]

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@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > 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