From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] VT-d: add iommu=igfx option to workaround graphics issues Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:28:06 +0100 Message-ID: <1438853286.9747.124.camel@citrix.com> References: <20150805133524.GN26074@zion.uk.xensource.com> <1438794606-6891-1-git-send-email-lantw44@gmail.com> <20150806082531.GC15719@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150806082531.GC15719@zion.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu , "Tian, Kevin" Cc: Ting-Wei Lan , Andrew Cooper , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Julien Grall , Jan Beulich , "Zhang, Yang Z" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 09:25 +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 12:49:51AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote: > > > From: Ting-Wei Lan [mailto:lantw44@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 1:10 AM > > > > > > When using Linux >= 3.19 (commit 47591df) as dom0 on some Intel > > > Ironlake > > > devices, It is possible to encounter graphics issues that make screen > > > unreadable or crash the system. It was reported in freedesktop > > > bugzilla: > > > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90037 > > > > > > As we still cannot find a proper fix for this problem, this patch > > > adds > > > iommu=igfx option to control whether Intel graphics IOMMU is enabled. > > > Running Xen with iommu=no-igfx is similar to running Linux with > > > intel_iommu=igfx_off, which disables IOMMU for Intel GPU. This can be > > > used by users to manually workaround the problem before a fix is > > > available for i915 driver. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ting-Wei Lan > > > Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper > > > Release-acked-by: Wei Liu > > > > Acked-by: Kevin Tian > > Thanks for the quick turnaround! Applied.