From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/iommu changes for v3.13
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:02:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111180209.GA14936@gmail.com> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the latest x86-iommu-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-iommu-for-linus
# HEAD: ced3c42c9fcba049ec9c76c8461ac194cafb20ba x86/iommu: Clean up the CONFIG_GART_IOMMU config option a bit
Make it easier to turn off the old AMD GART code.
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Andi Kleen (1):
x86/iommu: Don't make AMD_GART depend on EXPERT and default y
Ingo Molnar (1):
x86/iommu: Clean up the CONFIG_GART_IOMMU config option a bit
arch/x86/Kconfig | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index ee2fb9d..7081958 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -756,20 +756,25 @@ config DMI
BIOS code.
config GART_IOMMU
- bool "GART IOMMU support" if EXPERT
- default y
+ bool "Old AMD GART IOMMU support"
select SWIOTLB
depends on X86_64 && PCI && AMD_NB
---help---
- Support for full DMA access of devices with 32bit memory access only
- on systems with more than 3GB. This is usually needed for USB,
- sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
- Provides a driver for the AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron GART
- based hardware IOMMU and a software bounce buffer based IOMMU used
- on Intel systems and as fallback.
- The code is only active when needed (enough memory and limited
- device) unless CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG or iommu=force is specified
- too.
+ Provides a driver for older AMD Athlon64/Opteron/Turion/Sempron
+ GART based hardware IOMMUs.
+
+ The GART supports full DMA access for devices with 32-bit access
+ limitations, on systems with more than 3 GB. This is usually needed
+ for USB, sound, many IDE/SATA chipsets and some other devices.
+
+ Newer systems typically have a modern AMD IOMMU, supported via
+ the CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y config option.
+
+ In normal configurations this driver is only active when needed:
+ there's more than 3 GB of memory and the system contains a
+ 32-bit limited device.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
config CALGARY_IOMMU
bool "IBM Calgary IOMMU support"
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