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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
index fa80f60e9607..d71c8655905b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -33,7 +33,14 @@ int no_iommu __read_mostly;
/* Set this to 1 if there is a HW IOMMU in the system */
int iommu_detected __read_mostly = 0;
-int iommu_pass_through;
+/*
+ * This variable becomes 1 if iommu=pt is passed on the kernel command line.
+ * If this variable is 1, IOMMU implementations do no DMA ranslation for
+ * devices and allow every device to access to whole physical memory. This is
+ * useful if a user want to use an IOMMU only for KVM device assignment to
+ * guests and not for driver dma translation.
+ */
+int iommu_pass_through __read_mostly;
dma_addr_t bad_dma_address __read_mostly = 0;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bad_dma_address);
@@ -153,7 +160,7 @@ again:
return NULL;
addr = page_to_phys(page);
- if (!is_buffer_dma_capable(dma_mask, addr, size)) {
+ if (addr + size > dma_mask) {
__free_pages(page, get_order(size));
if (dma_mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(32) && !(flag & GFP_DMA)) {