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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Align PCI memory regions to page size (4K)
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:00:38AM -0400, Barak Fargoun wrote:
> Add a boot parameter ('pci-mem-align') which forces PCI memory regions
> to be aligned to 4K.
>
>
>
> This is very useful when developing an hypervisor, since in case we want
> to let native domains direct access to specific hardware, we don't want
> PCI devices to share their memory region page with other devices. In Xen
> for example, PCI devices mmio resources are mapped by remapping complete
> pages (by Intel VT-d & the Neocleus pass-through patch for Xen).
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Barak Fargoun (barak@neocleus.com)
>
> ---
>
> Kernel version: 2.6.18

Patches against year old kernel versions usually do not work :)


>
> ---
>
> diff -r 840b9df48b6a drivers/pci/bus.c
>
> --- a/drivers/pci/bus.c Tue Aug 07 09:37:41 2007 +0100
>
> +++ b/drivers/pci/bus.c Sun Oct 28 08:40:52 2007 -0400
>
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
>
> #include <linux/init.h>
>
>
>
> #include "pci.h"
>
> +

Your patch is majorly corrupted by your email client. Can you please
fix this and try again?

thanks,

greg k-h
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