Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 2015 09:47:07 +0800 | From | "Li, ZhenHua" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v11 05/10] iommu/vt-d: Add functions to load and save old re |
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On 05/12/2015 04:37 PM, Dave Young wrote: > Seems the subject was truncated? Maybe "re" means root entry? Then please fix it > > On 05/11/15 at 05:52pm, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote: >> Add functions to load root entry table from old kernel, and to save updated >> root entry table. >> Add two member in struct intel_iommu, to store the RTA in old kernel, and >> the mapped virt address of it. > > Please explain a bit what is "RTA" in patch log, it is unclear to most of people > who do not know iommu details. > >>
If people want to understand this patchset, I assume they have read the vt-d specs. RTA is defined clearly in this spec.
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