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authorRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>2021-06-14 17:57:26 +0300
committerJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>2021-06-17 18:03:46 +0300
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iommu: Update "iommu.strict" documentation
Consolidating the flush queue logic also meant that the "iommu.strict" option started taking effect on x86 as well. Make sure we document that. Fixes: a250c23f15c2 ("iommu: remove DOMAIN_ATTR_DMA_USE_FLUSH_QUEUE") Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2c8c06e1b449d6b060c5bf9ad3b403cd142f405d.1623682646.git.robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index cb89dbdedc46..20a32de990ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1987,7 +1987,7 @@
forcing Dual Address Cycle for PCI cards supporting
greater than 32-bit addressing.
- iommu.strict= [ARM64] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
+ iommu.strict= [ARM64, X86] Configure TLB invalidation behaviour
Format: { "0" | "1" }
0 - Lazy mode.
Request that DMA unmap operations use deferred
@@ -1998,6 +1998,10 @@
1 - Strict mode (default).
DMA unmap operations invalidate IOMMU hardware TLBs
synchronously.
+ Note: on x86, the default behaviour depends on the
+ equivalent driver-specific parameters, but a strict
+ mode explicitly specified by either method takes
+ precedence.
iommu.passthrough=
[ARM64, X86] Configure DMA to bypass the IOMMU by default.