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authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2006-04-12 21:52:33 -0500
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-04-21 22:29:37 +1000
commit28897731318dc8f63f683eed9091e446916ad706 (patch)
tree702e9668705fcf96c0e1d6423a83f22d57e1c3fb /arch/powerpc
parent7daa411b810d7eadfaabe3765ec5f827893dbb30 (diff)
[PATCH] powerpc: Lower threshold for DART enablement to 1GB
Turn on the DART already at 1GB. This is needed because of crippled devices in some systems, i.e. Airport Extreme cards, only supporting 30-bit DMA addresses. Otherwise, users with between 1 and 2GB of memory will need to manually enable it with iommu=force, and that's no good. Some simple performance tests show that there's a slight impact of enabling DART, but it's in the 1-3% range (kernel build with disk I/O as well as over NFS). iommu=off can still be used for those who don't want to deal with the overhead (and don't need it for any devices). Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c12
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 4336390bcf3..1cb69e8fb0b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static int __initdata dt_root_addr_cells;
static int __initdata dt_root_size_cells;
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-static int __initdata iommu_is_off;
+int __initdata iommu_is_off;
int __initdata iommu_force_on;
unsigned long tce_alloc_start, tce_alloc_end;
#endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
index 61d31742861..38087bd6e3c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include "dart.h"
+extern int iommu_is_off;
extern int iommu_force_on;
/* Physical base address and size of the DART table */
@@ -329,10 +330,17 @@ void iommu_init_early_dart(void)
void __init alloc_dart_table(void)
{
- /* Only reserve DART space if machine has more than 2GB of RAM
+ /* Only reserve DART space if machine has more than 1GB of RAM
* or if requested with iommu=on on cmdline.
+ *
+ * 1GB of RAM is picked as limit because some default devices
+ * (i.e. Airport Extreme) have 30 bit address range limits.
*/
- if (lmb_end_of_DRAM() <= 0x80000000ull && !iommu_force_on)
+
+ if (iommu_is_off)
+ return;
+
+ if (!iommu_force_on && lmb_end_of_DRAM() <= 0x40000000ull)
return;
/* 512 pages (2MB) is max DART tablesize. */