Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86-64: Calgary IOMMU - Calgary specific bits

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:45, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:03:34PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 
> > > > X works :-) 
> > > 
> > > So it's behind a bridge that doesn't have an IOMMU?
> > 
> > No, it's behind a bridge that does have an IOMMU and is running with
> > translation enabled (it's on PHB 0 on this machine). I guess you are
> > concerned with userspace access to the graphics controller directly,
> > without a kernel driver having set up mapping previously? I will look
> > into it but emprirically X works so either userspace is not triggering
> > DMAs or the mappings have been set up by a driver.
> 
> Turns out that X does work on my machine (SLES 9SP2) but dies with a
> bad translation error on Jon's machine, which is otherwise identical
> except it runs gentoo. We are thinking how to best address this (add
> IOMMU aware drivers to X? *shudder*), but will disable translation by
> default on PHB 0 in the mean time for a friendlier user
> experience.

You could just enable it for mmaps on /dev/mem. 

-Andi