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AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default

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Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU

Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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Joerg Roedel
2008-11-17 15:09:20 +01:00
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@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Possible values are:
isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far
as possible, will get its own protection
domain)
domain) [default]
share - put every device behind one IOMMU into the
same protection domain
fullflush - enable flushing of IO/TLB entries when