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authorJon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>2006-06-26 13:58:14 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-26 10:48:19 -0700
commite465058d55a88feb4c7ecabe63eea7ea7147e206 (patch)
treed431ed689e072415915694eecdfbcb9304287f01 /Documentation
parent0dc243ae10c8309c170a3af9f1adad1924a9f217 (diff)
downloadlinux-e465058d55a88feb4c7ecabe63eea7ea7147e206.tar.bz2
[PATCH] x86_64: Calgary IOMMU - Calgary specific bits
This patch hooks Calgary into the build, the x86-64 IOMMU initialization paths, and introduces the Calgary specific bits. The implementation draws inspiration from both PPC (which has support for the same chip but requires firmware support which we don't have on x86-64) and gart. Calgary is different from gart in that it support a translation table per PHB, as opposed to the single gart aperture. Changes from previous version: * Addition of boot-time disablement for bus-level translation/isolation (e.g, enable userspace DMA for things like X) * Usage of newer IOMMU abstraction functions Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -205,6 +205,27 @@ IOMMU
pages Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO bounce buffering.
force Force all IO through the software TLB.
+ calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M]
+ calgary=[translate_empty_slots]
+ calgary=[disable=<PCI bus number>]
+
+ 64k,...,8M - Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table
+ when using the Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation
+ table itself in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO
+ space of 32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of
+ 4GB. Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
+
+ translate_empty_slots - Enable translation even on slots that have
+ no devices attached to them, in case a device will be hotplugged
+ in the future.
+
+ disable=<PCI bus number> - Disable translation on a given PHB. For
+ example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge
+ (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this
+ bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user
+ space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that
+ are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge.
+
Debugging
oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,