[PATCH] x86: always select SWIOTLB on x86_64

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Tue Nov 18 05:51:05 PST 2008


* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel at amd.com> wrote:

> Impact: fixes korg bugzilla 11980
> 
> A kernel for a 64bit x86 system should always contain the swiotlb code
> in case it is booted on a machine without any hardware IOMMU supported
> by the kernel and more than 4GB of RAM. This patch changes Kconfig to
> always compile swiotlb into the kernel for x86_64.
> 
> Cc: hawk at pld-linux.org
> Cc: stable at kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel at amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applied to tip/x86/iommu, thanks Joerg!

	Ingo


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