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authorKeshavamurthy, Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>2007-10-21 19:41:53 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-22 11:13:18 -0400
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tree0016214c96d2475a160efdd85539242e356ce2d9 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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Intel IOMMU: Intel iommu cmdline option - forcedac
Introduce intel_iommu=forcedac commandline option. This option is helpful to verify the pci device capability of handling physical dma'able address greater than 4G. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -781,6 +781,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
781 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In 781 bypassed by not enabling DMAR with this option. In
782 this case, gfx device will use physical address for 782 this case, gfx device will use physical address for
783 DMA. 783 DMA.
784 forcedac [x86_64]
785 With this option iommu will not optimize to look
786 for io virtual address below 32 bit forcing dual
787 address cycle on pci bus for cards supporting greater
788 than 32 bit addressing. The default is to look
789 for translation below 32 bit and if not available
790 then look in the higher range.
784 791
785 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems 792 io7= [HW] IO7 for Marvel based alpha systems
786 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in 793 See comment before marvel_specify_io7 in