Re: [PATCH] AMD IOMMU: revert "x86, AMD IOMMU: honor iommu=off instead of amd_iommu=off"

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:

> >     x86, AMD IOMMU: honor iommu=off instead of amd_iommu=off
> > 
> >     This patch removes the amd_iommu=off kernel parameter and honors 
> >     the generic
> > 
> >     iommu=off parameter for the same purpose.
> > 
> > 
> > The above commit is wrong.
> 
> It isn't. The user normally don't care about the type of IOMMU in the 
> system. So disabling it with iommu=off is the right way. To achieve 
> what you want its better to add iommu=gart and iommu=amd to the option 
> parser. This will be consistent with Calgary and SWIOTLB too.

well, what matters in the end is to have a consistent set of exclusion 
options:

  gart_iommu=off     # disable the GART (and only that one)
  intel_iommu=off    # disable the Intel IOMMU (and only that one)
  amd_iommu=off      # disable AMD-IOMMU (and only that one)

then there's the all-off option:

  iommu=off          # wildcard: disable all IOMMUs

[ whether iommu=off also disables the swiotlb is a detail. ]

and we could also do the inclusive options in addition:

  iommu=gart         # use the GART as the primary IOMMU [if available]
  iommu=amd          # use the AMD-IOMMU as the primary IOMMU [if available]
  iommu=intel        # use the Intel IOMMU [if available]

so could we please first agree on such a specific list of generic 
options, and then implement them consistently, while keeping legacies 
(the ones that matter) intact as well?

	Ingo