linux/arch/x86
FUJITA Tomonori 75f1cdf1dd x86: Handle HW IOMMU initialization failure gracefully
If HW IOMMU initialization fails (Intel VT-d often does this,
typically due to BIOS bugs), we fall back to nommu. It doesn't
work for the majority since nowadays we have more than 4GB
memory so we must use swiotlb instead of nommu.

The problem is that it's too late to initialize swiotlb when HW
IOMMU initialization fails. We need to allocate swiotlb memory
earlier from bootmem allocator. Chris explained the issue in
detail:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125657444317079&w=2

The current x86 IOMMU initialization sequence is too complicated
and handling the above issue makes it more hacky.

This patch changes x86 IOMMU initialization sequence to handle
the above issue cleanly.

The new x86 IOMMU initialization sequence are:

1. we initialize the swiotlb (and setting swiotlb to 1) in the case
   of (max_pfn > MAX_DMA32_PFN && !no_iommu). dma_ops is set to
   swiotlb_dma_ops or nommu_dma_ops. if swiotlb usage is forced by
   the boot option, we finish here.

2. we call the detection functions of all the IOMMUs

3. the detection function sets x86_init.iommu.iommu_init to the
   IOMMU initialization function (so we can avoid calling the
   initialization functions of all the IOMMUs needlessly).

4. if the IOMMU initialization function doesn't need to swiotlb
   then sets swiotlb to zero (e.g. the initialization is
   sucessful).

5. if we find that swiotlb is set to zero, we free swiotlb
   resource.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: muli@il.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <1257849980-22640-10-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-10 12:32:07 +01:00
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boot x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirk 2009-10-16 07:18:46 +02:00
configs tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints 2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - Fix irq_fpu_usable usage 2009-10-20 16:20:47 +09:00
ia32 x86-64: Fix register leak in 32-bit syscall audting 2009-10-26 16:23:26 +01:00
include/asm x86: Handle HW IOMMU initialization failure gracefully 2009-11-10 12:32:07 +01:00
kernel x86: Handle HW IOMMU initialization failure gracefully 2009-11-10 12:32:07 +01:00
kvm KVM: get_tss_base_addr() should return a gpa_t 2009-11-04 12:42:36 -02:00
lguest lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place. 2009-09-23 22:26:44 +09:30
lib x86: Don't generate cmpxchg8b_emu if CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y 2009-10-01 08:42:24 +02:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-26 10:13:35 -07:00
oprofile perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
pci const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
power x86: Remove final bits of CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE 2009-09-18 08:31:23 +02:00
vdso kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption 2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
video
xen xen: mask extended topology info in cpuid 2009-11-03 11:09:12 -08:00
Kbuild
Kconfig x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 2009-10-23 16:35:23 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Side-step lguest problem by only building cmpxchg8b_emu for pre-Pentium 2009-10-26 12:33:02 +01:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures 2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Makefile x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 2009-10-23 16:35:23 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architecture 2009-08-23 11:20:02 +02:00