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, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
index 745579bc8256..8cad0d854242 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ again:
 	return page_address(page);
 }
 
+extern int iommu_pass_through;
+
 /*
  * See <Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt> for the iommu kernel parameter
  * documentation.
@@ -209,6 +211,10 @@ static __init int iommu_setup(char *p)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
 		if (!strncmp(p, "soft", 4))
 			swiotlb = 1;
+		if (!strncmp(p, "pt", 2)) {
+			iommu_pass_through = 1;
+			return 1;
+		}
 #endif
 
 		gart_parse_options(p);