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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>2011-02-10 09:10:47 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-03-04 18:19:05 +1100
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powerpc/pseries: Add support for dynamic dma windows
If firmware allows us to map all of a partition's memory for DMA on a particular bridge, create a 1:1 mapping of that memory. Add hooks for dealing with hotplug events. Dynamic DMA windows can use larger than the default page size, and we use the largest one possible. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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@@ -626,6 +626,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
disable= [IPV6]
See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.
+ disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
+ Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
+ to workaround buggy firmware.
+
disable_ipv6= [IPV6]
See Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt.