There are many adapters which cannot handle DMAing across any 4 GB
boundary. For instance, the latest Emulex adapters.
This normally is not an issue as firmware gives dma-windows under
4gigs. However, some of the new System-P boxes have dma-windows above
4gigs, and this present a problem.
During initialization of the IOMMU tables, the last entry at each 4GB
boundary is marked as used. Thus no mappings can cross the boundary.
If a table ends at a 4GB boundary, the entry is not marked as used.
A boot option to remove this 4GB protection is given w/ protect4gb=off.
This exposes the potential issue for driver and hardware development
purposes.
Signed-off-by: Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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