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PCI: allow assignment of memory resources with a specified alignment

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This patch allows memory resources to be assigned with a specified
alignment at boot-time or run-time. The patch is useful when we use PCI
pass-through, because page-aligned memory resources are required to
securely share PCI resources with guest drivers.

If you want to assign the resource at boot time, please set
"pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter.

This is format of "pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter:

        [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
                Specifies alignment and device to reassign
                aligned memory resources.
                If <order of align> is not specified, PAGE_SIZE is
                used as alignment.
                PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
                windows need to be expanded.

This is example:

        pci=resource_alignment=20@07:00.0;18@0f:00.0;00:1d.7

If you want to assign the resource at run-time, please set
"/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file, and hot-remove the device and
hot-add the device.  For this purpose, fakephp or PCI hotplug interfaces
can be used.

The format of "/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file is the same with
boot parameter. You can use "," instead of ";".

For example:

        # cd /sys/bus/pci
        # echo -n 20@12:00.0 > resource_alignment
        # echo 1 > devices/0000:12:00.0/remove
        # echo 1 > rescan

Reviewed-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuji Shimada <shimada-yxb@necst.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Yuji Shimada 2009-03-16 17:13:39 +09:00 • committed by Jesse Barnes
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