Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] virtio/s390: use DMA memory for ccw I/O and classic notifiers

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Thu,  6 Jun 2019 13:51:26 +0200
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> Before virtio-ccw could get away with not using DMA API for the pieces of
> memory it does ccw I/O with. With protected virtualization this has to
> change, since the hypervisor needs to read and sometimes also write these
> pieces of memory.
> 
> The hypervisor is supposed to poke the classic notifiers, if these are
> used, out of band with regards to ccw I/O. So these need to be allocated
> as DMA memory (which is shared memory for protected virtualization
> guests).
> 
> Let us factor out everything from struct virtio_ccw_device that needs to
> be DMA memory in a satellite that is allocated as such.
> 
> Note: The control blocks of I/O instructions do not need to be shared.
> These are marshalled by the ultravisor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 171 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)

(...)

>  static u64 virtio_ccw_get_features(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  {
>  	struct virtio_ccw_device *vcdev = to_vc_device(vdev);
>  	struct virtio_feature_desc *features;
> +	struct ccw1 *ccw;
>  	int ret;
>  	u64 rc;
> -	struct ccw1 *ccw;

I'd probably not have included unneeded code movement here, but no need
to respin for that.

>  
> -	ccw = kzalloc(sizeof(*ccw), GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
> +	ccw = ccw_device_dma_zalloc(vcdev->cdev, sizeof(*ccw));
>  	if (!ccw)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	features = kzalloc(sizeof(*features), GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
> +	features = ccw_device_dma_zalloc(vcdev->cdev, sizeof(*features));
>  	if (!features) {
>  		rc = 0;
>  		goto out_free;

(...)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>