From e5e1f606ecbf67e52ebe2df5d14f8b94ec6544d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Roedel Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:07:17 +0100 Subject: AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation Impact: add a new AMD IOMMU kernel command line parameter Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9fa6508892c2..b56ee02d2514 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far as possible, will get its own protection domain) + share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the + same protection domain fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when they are unmapped. Otherwise they are flushed before they will be reused, which -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3ce1f93c6d53c3f91c3846cf66b018276c8ac2e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Roedel Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:09:20 +0100 Subject: AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting each device into its own protection domain per default. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b56ee02d2514..f2e1e7fc0ffd 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Possible values are: isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far as possible, will get its own protection - domain) + domain) [default] share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the same protection domain fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when -- cgit v1.2.3