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>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
index 285aae8..223abb1 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
void __init pci_swiotlb_init(void)
{
- if (!iommu_detected) {
+ if (!iommu_detected || iommu_pass_through) {
#ifdef CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC
swiotlb = 1;
printk(KERN_INFO "PCI-DMA: Re-initialize machine vector.\n");