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Re: [PATCH V4 0/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable multi-IOMMU support

From Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V4 0/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable multi-IOMMU support
Date 2016-02-23 12:40 +0100
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On 02/23/2016 06:27 PM, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/23/2016 06:04 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> Hi Suravee,
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:15:21PM +0700, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
>>> From: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
>>>
>>> This patch series modifies the existing perf_event_amd_iommu driver
>>> to support systems with multiple IOMMUs. It introduces new AMD IOMMU
>>> APIs,
>>> which are used by the AMD IOMMU Perf driver to access performance
>>> counters in multiple IOMMUs.
>>>
>>> In addition, this series should also fix current AMD IOMMU PMU driver
>>> initialization issue in some existing KV and CZ platform, where it fails
>>> to write to IOMMU perf counter as reported by Andreas Hartmann here
>>> (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/49147).
>>
>> Since that problem also affects older kernels, we need a stand-alone
>> fix for this initialization issue. We can't backport new features to fix
>> bugs in old kernels.
>>
>>
>>     Joerg
>>
>
> OK, I am spliting V5 into two part. First would be just to fix the
> issue. Then the second part would be to add the multiple IOMMU support.
>
> Suravee

Actually, my V5 is rebased from tips which has moved several files. I 
think we might need to create a separate patch series to fix this issue 
in older kernels. Which branch should I rebase my changes for the older 
kernel?

Suravee

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Re: [PATCH V4 0/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable multi-IOMMU support Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2016-02-23 12:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V4 0/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable multi-IOMMU support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-02-23 12:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V4 0/6] perf/amd/iommu: Enable multi-IOMMU support Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> - 2016-02-23 12:40 +0100
      [PATCH] iommu/amd: Fix boot warning when device 00:00.0 is not iommu Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> - 2016-02-23 13:20 +0100

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