[Xen-changelog] [xen stable-4.4] x86/ats: Disable Address Translation Services by default

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commit 755a81ec9860c3f2291e275c13832d58677b39bf
Author:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed Oct 1 15:03:52 2014 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed Oct 1 15:03:52 2014 +0200

    x86/ats: Disable Address Translation Services by default
    
    Xen cannot safely use any ATS functionality until it gains asynchronous 
queued
    invalidation support, because of the current synchronous wait for 
completion.
    
    Do not turn ATS on by default.
    
    While editing the default in the command line documentation, correct the
    statement regarding PCI Passthrough.  ATS is purely a performance
    optimisation, and is certainly not required for PCI Passthrough to function.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>
    master commit: ad6eddb742577d182e634785bcfaf92732a50024
    master date: 2014-08-28 16:05:10 +0200
---
 docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown |    9 ++++++---
 xen/drivers/passthrough/x86/ats.c   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown 
b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
index 293d5ac..6841f04 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
+++ b/docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown
@@ -167,10 +167,13 @@ developers wishing Xen to fall back to older timing 
methods on newer hardware.
 ### ats
 > `= <boolean>`
 
-> Default: `true`
+> Default: `false`
+
+Permits Xen to set up and use PCI Address Translation Services.  This is a
+performance optimisation for PCI Passthrough.
 
-Permits Xen to set up and use PCI Address Translation Services, which
-is required for PCI Passthrough.
+**WARNING: Xen cannot currently safely use ATS because of its synchronous wait
+loops for Queued Invalidation completions.**
 
 ### availmem
 > `= <size>`
diff --git a/xen/drivers/passthrough/x86/ats.c 
b/xen/drivers/passthrough/x86/ats.c
index 1e3e03a..436eada 100644
--- a/xen/drivers/passthrough/x86/ats.c
+++ b/xen/drivers/passthrough/x86/ats.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 LIST_HEAD(ats_devices);
 
-bool_t __read_mostly ats_enabled = 1;
+bool_t __read_mostly ats_enabled = 0;
 boolean_param("ats", ats_enabled);
 
 int enable_ats_device(int seg, int bus, int devfn, const void *iommu)
--
generated by git-patchbot for /home/xen/git/xen.git#stable-4.4

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