From 4ed0d3e6c64cfd9ba4ceb2099b10d1cf8ece4320 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fenghua Yu Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:30:20 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Weidong Han Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c index 745579bc8256..8cad0d854242 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c @@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ again: return page_address(page); } +extern int iommu_pass_through; + /* * See for the iommu kernel parameter * documentation. @@ -209,6 +211,10 @@ static __init int iommu_setup(char *p) #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB if (!strncmp(p, "soft", 4)) swiotlb = 1; + if (!strncmp(p, "pt", 2)) { + iommu_pass_through = 1; + return 1; + } #endif gart_parse_options(p); -- cgit v1.2.3