On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 16:43 -0400, Don Dutile wrote: > > Additionally, a tidbit of information like "some servers force NMI's > on DMAR faults, > and cause a system reset, thereby, preventing a kdump to occur" > should have been included as one reason to stop DMAR faults from > occurring on kexec-boot, > in addition to the fact that a flood of them can lock up a system. How about allocating a physical scratch page, and setting up a mapping for each device such that *every* virtual address (apart from those listed in RMRRs, perhaps) is mapped to that same scratch page? That way you avoid the faults, but you also avoid stray DMA to parts of the system that you don't want to get corrupted. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse at intel.com Intel Corporation -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5745 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20140408/fe07f491/attachment.bin>
