From e5e1f606ecbf67e52ebe2df5d14f8b94ec6544d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Roedel Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:07:17 +0100 Subject: AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation Impact: add a new AMD IOMMU kernel command line parameter Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9fa6508892c..b56ee02d251 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far as possible, will get its own protection domain) + share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the + same protection domain fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when they are unmapped. Otherwise they are flushed before they will be reused, which -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3ce1f93c6d53c3f91c3846cf66b018276c8ac2e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Roedel Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:09:20 +0100 Subject: AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting each device into its own protection domain per default. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b56ee02d251..f2e1e7fc0ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Possible values are: isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far as possible, will get its own protection - domain) + domain) [default] share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the same protection domain fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when -- cgit v1.2.3 From 9d6ada9f4141fb8ab3c5d7dffe382f6a68b8e961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paulius Zaleckas Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:38:24 -0800 Subject: phylib: fix phy name example in documentation All MDIO bus drivers currently name bus with "%x" format. There is one exception where mv643xx_eth driver is using "%d". Phy address on the bus uses format "%02x". Fixing phy name example to match all real life MDIO drivers. Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/phy.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt index 8df6a7b0e66..88bb71b46da 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Letting the PHY Abstraction Layer do Everything static void adjust_link(struct net_device *dev); Next, you need to know the device name of the PHY connected to this device. - The name will look something like, "phy0:0", where the first number is the + The name will look something like, "0:00", where the first number is the bus id, and the second is the PHY's address on that bus. Typically, the bus is responsible for making its ID unique. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1c207f952a3a39f9d07a3e9de0cf6b9a9464eeaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:36:16 -0800 Subject: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: add min_addr, fix max_addr Add "min_addr" documentation. For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this is consistent with other uses of [KMG]. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9fa6508892c..899650c20cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1193,8 +1193,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables the IO APIC. - max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or - equal to this physical address is ignored. + max_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than + or equal to this physical address is ignored. max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe. Should be between 1 and 2^32-1. @@ -1294,6 +1294,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file mga= [HW,DRM] + min_addr=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory below this + physical address is ignored. + mminit_loglevel= [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for -- cgit v1.2.3