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| author | Keshavamurthy, Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> | 2007-10-22 03:41:55 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-22 19:13:19 +0400 |
| commit | e820482cd2621dba60e403af1c54502daa54b220 (patch) | |
| tree | 3498401c7154e14008ab80b2f0cbca539ce7ffbc /arch/x86_64 | |
| parent | 3460a6d9cef9ac2aa997da7eff7ff1c8291b361c (diff) | |
| download | linux-e820482cd2621dba60e403af1c54502daa54b220.tar.xz | |
Intel IOMMU: Iommu Gfx workaround
When we fix all the opensource gfx drivers to use the DMA api's, at that time
we can yank this config options out.
[jengelh@computergmbh.de: Kconfig fixes]
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig index 5c9aaed589a5..5cf941774347 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -755,11 +755,22 @@ config DMAR depends on PCI_MSI && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL default y help - DMA remapping(DMAR) devices support enables independent address - translations for Direct Memory Access(DMA) from Devices. + DMA remapping (DMAR) devices support enables independent address + translations for Direct Memory Access (DMA) from devices. These DMA remapping devices are reported via ACPI tables - and includes pci device scope covered by these DMA - remapping device. + and include PCI device scope covered by these DMA + remapping devices. + +config DMAR_GFX_WA + bool "Support for Graphics workaround" + depends on DMAR + default y + help + Current Graphics drivers tend to use physical address + for DMA and avoid using DMA APIs. Setting this config + option permits the IOMMU driver to set a unity map for + all the OS-visible memory. Hence the driver can continue + to use physical addresses for DMA. source "drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig" |