Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:27:36 -0700 | From | "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] stop x86 ->sysdata abuse; introduce pci_sysdata |
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:05:51PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > This patch introduces struct pci_sysdata to x86 and x86-64, and > converts the existing two users (NUMA, Calgary) to use it. > > This eliminates the conflict between NUMA and Calgary using the same > pointer for different uses, and lays the groundwork for adding x86 > PCI domain support. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> > > --- > > NOTE: This patch is untested, extract from the larger changes found in > jgarzik/misc-2.6.git#pciseg. Hopefully NUMA and/or Calgary users will > test and ack this, then build patches on top of it.
Looks like the recently announced Intel-IOMMU too (just like Calgary) depends on sysdata. I will modify my Intel-IOMMU accordingly and will let you know how it goes with your patch.
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