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So far the pseries platforms has always been using IOMMU making SWIOTLB unnecessary. Now we want secure guests which means devices can only access certain areas of guest physical memory; we are going to use SWIOTLB for this purpose. This allows SWIOTLB for pseries. By default there is no change in behavior. This enables SWIOTLB when the "swiotlb" kernel parameter is set to "force". With the SWIOTLB enabled, the kernel creates a directly mapped DMA window (using the usual DDW mechanism) and implements SWIOTLB on top of that. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.