From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH v7 9/9] vring: Use the DMA API on Xen Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 21:46:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Woodhouse , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "David S. Miller" , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel , Christian Borntraeger , Cornelia Huck , Sebastian Ott , Paolo Bonzini , Christoph Hellwig , KVM , Martin Schwidefsky , linux-s390 , Linux Virtualization , David Vrabel , Stefano Stabellini , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Andy Lutomirski To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index e46d08107a50..5c802d47892c 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #ifdef DEBUG /* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */ @@ -136,6 +137,17 @@ struct vring_virtqueue { static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev) { + /* + * In theory, it's possible to have a buggy QEMU-supposed + * emulated Q35 IOMMU and Xen enabled at the same time. On + * such a configuration, virtio has never worked and will + * not work without an even larger kludge. Instead, enable + * the DMA API if we're a Xen guest, which at least allows + * all of the sensible Xen configurations to work correctly. + */ + if (xen_domain()) + return true; + return false; } -- 2.5.0