[PATCH] iommu fixes, round 3
Linas Vepstas
linas at austin.ibm.com
Wed Nov 3 10:06:18 EST 2004
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:28:36PM -0500, John Rose was heard to remark:
> This patch changes the following iommu-related things:
>
> - Renames the [i,p]series versions of iommu_devnode_init(), to keep things
> logically separate where possible.
>
> - Moves iommu_free_table() to generic iommu.c
>
> - Creates of_cleanup_node(), which will directly precede the dynamic removal of
> any device node
>
> Comments welcome.
FYI, without this patch, I get BUG_ON crashes when I hotplug-remove
a PCI card, on the nov. 1 2.6.10-rc1 kernel. The BUG_ON is in
free_pages, called from iommu_free_table() called from of_remove_node()
With this patch, things get back to normal. Please forward & apply.
--linas
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