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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] x86/dma: Mark iommu_pass_through as __read_mostly
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:36:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252056994-31980-2-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252056994-31980-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>

This variable is read most of the time. This patch marks it
as such. It also documents the meaning the this variable
while at it.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
index 1a041bc..873aa07 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -32,7 +32,14 @@ int no_iommu __read_mostly;
 /* Set this to 1 if there is a HW IOMMU in the system */
 int iommu_detected __read_mostly = 0;
 
-int iommu_pass_through;
+/*
+ * This variable becomes 1 if iommu=pt is passed on the kernel command line.
+ * If this variable is 1, IOMMU implementations do no DMA ranslation for
+ * devices and allow every device to access to whole physical memory. This is
+ * useful if a user want to use an IOMMU only for KVM device assignment to
+ * guests and not for driver dma translation.
+ */
+int iommu_pass_through __read_mostly;
 
 dma_addr_t bad_dma_address __read_mostly = 0;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bad_dma_address);
-- 
1.6.3.3



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04  9:36 [PATCH 0/8] Passthrough support for AMD-IOMMU (AMD-Vi) Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86/amd-iommu: Add core functions for pd allocation/freeing Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86/amd-iommu: Add passthrough mode initialization functions Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86/amd-iommu: Fix device table write order Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/amd-iommu: Align locking between attach_device and detach_device Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86/amd-iommu: Make sure a device is assigned in passthrough mode Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86/amd-iommu: Don't detach device from pt domain on driver unbind Joerg Roedel
2009-09-04  9:36 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/amd-iommu: Initialize passthrough mode when requested Joerg Roedel
2009-09-07 12:54 ` [PATCH 0/8] Passthrough support for AMD-IOMMU (AMD-Vi) David Woodhouse

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