Support for Shared Virtual Memory with Intel IOMMU

selects

CONFIG_PCI_PASID
CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER

depends

CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU
CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT
CONFIG_X86

modulename: intel-svm.ko
configname: CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_SVM

Linux Kernel Configuration

└─> Device Drivers

└─> IOMMU Hardware Support

└─> Support for Shared Virtual Memory with Intel IOMMU

In linux kernel since version 4.1 (release Date: 2015-06-21)

Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) provides a facility for devices
to access DMA resources through process address space by
means of a Process Address Space ID (PASID).

source code:

drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c