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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

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 swiotlb_dma_init(void)
 
 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");