Comment 34 for bug 1747463

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Salisbury [mailto:<email address hidden>]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:40 PM
> To: Nath, Arindam <email address hidden>
> Cc: <email address hidden>; Bridgman, John
> <email address hidden>; joro@8bytes.org; amd-
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> Suthikulpanit, Suravee <email address hidden>; Deucher,
> Alexander <email address hidden>; Kuehling, Felix
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> <email address hidden>; Lendacky, Thomas
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> Subject: Re: iommu/amd: flush IOTLB for specific domains only (v2)
>
> On 05/15/2018 04:03 AM, Nath, Arindam wrote:
> > Adding Tom.
> >
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > My original patch was never accepted. Tom and Joerg worked on another
> patch series which was supposed to fix the issue in question in addition to do
> some code cleanups. I believe their patches are already in the mainline. If I
> remember correctly, one of the patches disabled PCI ATS for the graphics
> card which was causing the issue.
> >
> > Do you still see the issue with latest mainline kernel?
> >
> > BR,
> > Arindam
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joseph Salisbury [mailto:<email address hidden>]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 1:17 AM
> > To: Nath, Arindam <email address hidden>
> > Cc: <email address hidden>; Bridgman, John
> > <email address hidden>; joro@8bytes.org;
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> > Suthikulpanit, Suravee <email address hidden>; Deucher,
> > Alexander <email address hidden>; Kuehling, Felix
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> > Subject: iommu/amd: flush IOTLB for specific domains only (v2)
> >
> > Hello Arindam,
> >
> > There is a bug report[0] that you created a patch[1] for a while back.
> However, the patch never landed in mainline.  There is a bug reporter in
> Ubuntu[2] that is affected by this bug and is willing to test the patch.  I
> attempted to build a test kernel with the patch, but it does not apply to
> currently mainline cleanly.  Do you still think this patch may resolve this
> bug?  If so, is there a version of your patch available that will apply to current
> mainline?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101029
> > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/157327/
> > [2] http://pad.lv/1747463
> >
> Hi Arindam,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  Yes, the latest mainline kernel was tested, and it is
> reported the bug still happens in the Ubuntu kernel bug[0]. Is there any
> specific diagnostic info we can collect that might help?

Joe, I believe all the information needed is already provided in [2]. Let us wait for inputs from Tom and Joerg.

I could take a look at the issue locally, but it will take me some really long time since I am occupied with other assignments right now.

BR,
Arindam

>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> [0] http://pad.lv/1747463