linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] intr-remap: allow disabling source id checking

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Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:01:28 +0800
From:	"Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@...el.com>
To:	'Chris Wright' <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
CC:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	"'iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org'" 
	<iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	'David Woodhouse' <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] intr-remap: allow disabling source id checking

Hi Chris,

How about get rid of the 'nointremap' option? Therefore keep only one option for interrupt remapping.

Regards,
Weidong 


Chris Wright wrote:
> Allow users to disable source id checking.  This is really a
> debugging aid 
> for broken BIOS setups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    7 +++++++
>  drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c        |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 6fa7292..344256c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -982,6 +982,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is
>  			defined in the file result in a hardware IOTLB flush operation as
>  			opposed to batching them for performance.
> 
> +	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
> +			Format: { on (default) | off | nosid }
> +			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
> +			off	disable Interrupt Remapping
> +			nosid	disable Source ID checking
> +
>  	inttest=	[IA64]
> 
>  	iomem=		Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
> @@ -1691,6 +1697,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is
> defined in the file 
> 
>  	nointremap	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU] Do not enable interrupt
>  			remapping.
> +			[Deprecated - use intremap=off]
> 
>  	nointroute	[IA-64]
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c
> b/drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c 
> index 0ed78a7..136bb6e 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ static int ir_ioapic_num;
>  int intr_remapping_enabled;
> 
>  static int disable_intremap;
> +static int disable_sourceid_checking;
> +
>  static __init int setup_nointremap(char *str)
>  {
>  	disable_intremap = 1;
> @@ -25,6 +27,22 @@ static __init int setup_nointremap(char *str)
>  }
>  early_param("nointremap", setup_nointremap);
> 
> +static __init int setup_intremap(char *str)
> +{
> +	if (!str)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (!strncmp(str, "on", 2))
> +		disable_intremap = 0;
> +	else if (!strncmp(str, "off", 3))
> +		disable_intremap = 1;
> +	else if (!strncmp(str, "nosid", 5))
> +		disable_sourceid_checking = 1;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("intremap", setup_intremap);
> +
>  struct irq_2_iommu {
>  	struct intel_iommu *iommu;
>  	u16 irte_index;
> @@ -440,6 +458,8 @@ int free_irte(int irq)
>  static void set_irte_sid(struct irte *irte, unsigned int svt,
>  			 unsigned int sq, unsigned int sid)
>  {
> +	if (disable_sourceid_checking)
> +		svt = SVT_NO_VERIFY;
>  	irte->svt = svt;
>  	irte->sq = sq;
>  	irte->sid = sid;

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