Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:51:42 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Align PCI memory regions to page size (4K) |
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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,
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