Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Remove INTEL_IOMMU_BROKEN_GFX_WA

From: Baolu Lu
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 01:39:18 EST


On 2024/1/30 14:24, Tian, Kevin wrote:
From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 2:08 PM

Commit 62edf5dc4a524 ("intel-iommu: Restore DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA
option for
broken graphics drivers") was introduced 24 years ago as a temporary
workaround for graphics drivers that used physical addresses for DMA and
avoided DMA APIs. This workaround was disabled by default.

As 24 years have passed, it is expected that graphics driver developers
have migrated their drivers to use kernel DMA APIs. Therefore, this
workaround is no longer required and could been removed.

The Intel iommu driver also provides a "igfx_off" option to turn off
the DAM translation for the graphic dedicated IOMMU. Hence, there is
really no good reason to keep this config option.


s/DAM/DMA/

Fixed. :-)

Best regards,
baolu