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authorFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>2009-04-24 17:30:20 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2009-04-29 06:54:34 +0100
commit4ed0d3e6c64cfd9ba4ceb2099b10d1cf8ece4320 (patch)
tree950bacfaf57040aafbcc2ea9b52eb171d35c23bd /arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
parent091069740304c979f957ceacec39c461d0192158 (diff)
Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support
The patch adds kernel parameter intel_iommu=pt to set up pass through mode in context mapping entry. This disables DMAR in linux kernel; but KVM still runs on VT-d and interrupt remapping still works. In this mode, kernel uses swiotlb for DMA API functions but other VT-d functionalities are enabled for KVM. KVM always uses multi level translation page table in VT-d. By default, pass though mode is disabled in kernel. This is useful when people don't want to enable VT-d DMAR in kernel but still want to use KVM and interrupt remapping for reasons like DMAR performance concern or debug purpose. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Weidong Han <weidong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
index 221a3853e26..3a0c51e0ba6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ void __init pci_swiotlb_init(void)
{
/* don't initialize swiotlb if iommu=off (no_iommu=1) */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- if (!iommu_detected && !no_iommu && max_pfn > MAX_DMA32_PFN)
+ if ((!iommu_detected && !no_iommu && max_pfn > MAX_DMA32_PFN) ||
+ iommu_pass_through)
swiotlb = 1;
#endif
if (swiotlb_force)