Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support

The patch adds kernel parameter intel_iommu=pt to set up pass through
mode in context mapping entry. This disables DMAR in linux kernel; but
KVM still runs on VT-d and interrupt remapping still works.

In this mode, kernel uses swiotlb for DMA API functions but other VT-d
functionalities are enabled for KVM. KVM always uses multi level
translation page table in VT-d. By default, pass though mode is disabled
in kernel.

This is useful when people don't want to enable VT-d DMAR in kernel but
still want to use KVM and interrupt remapping for reasons like DMAR
performance concern or debug purpose.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Weidong Han <weidong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu.h
index af326a2975b5..fd6d21bbee6c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/iommu.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ extern void no_iommu_init(void);
 extern struct dma_map_ops nommu_dma_ops;
 extern int force_iommu, no_iommu;
 extern int iommu_detected;
+extern int iommu_pass_through;
 
 /* 10 seconds */
 #define DMAR_OPERATION_TIMEOUT ((cycles_t) tsc_khz*10*1000)