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| author | Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> | 2009-04-24 17:30:20 -0700 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2009-04-29 06:54:34 +0100 |
| commit | 4ed0d3e6c64cfd9ba4ceb2099b10d1cf8ece4320 (patch) | |
| tree | 950bacfaf57040aafbcc2ea9b52eb171d35c23bd /Documentation | |
| parent | 091069740304c979f957ceacec39c461d0192158 (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 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 600cdd72900..fa4faeb7597 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -965,6 +965,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nomerge forcesac soft + pt [x86, IA64] io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in |