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Commit 4ed0d3e6 authored by Fenghua Yu's avatar Fenghua Yu Committed by David Woodhouse
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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: default avatarFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWeidong Han <weidong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
parent 09106974
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