From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linuxppc-devel@lists.ozlabs.org,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] virtio_ring: Use DMA API if guest memory is encrypted
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 23:46:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190811064621.GB5964@ram.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190811055607.GA12488@lst.de>
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:56:07AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> sev_active() is gone now in linux-next, at least as a global API.
>
> And once again this is entirely going in the wrong direction. The only
> way using the DMA API is going to work at all is if the device is ready
> for it. So we need a flag on the virtio device, exposed by the
> hypervisor (or hardware for hw virtio devices) that says: hey, I'm real,
> don't take a shortcut.
>
> And that means on power and s390 qemu will always have to set thos if
> you want to be ready for the ultravisor and co games. It's not like we
> haven't been through this a few times before, have we?
We have been through this so many times, but I dont think, we ever
understood each other. I have a fundamental question, the answer to
which was never clear. Here it is...
If the hypervisor (hardware for hw virtio devices) does not mandate a
DMA API, why is it illegal for the driver to request, special handling
of its i/o buffers? Why are we associating this special handling to
always mean, some DMA address translation? Can't there be
any other kind of special handling needs, that has nothing to do with
DMA address translation?
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Ram Pai
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-29 17:08 [RFC PATCH] virtio_ring: Use DMA API if guest memory is encrypted Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-01-29 17:42 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-01-29 19:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-30 2:24 ` Jason Wang
2019-01-30 2:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-30 3:05 ` Jason Wang
2019-01-30 3:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-30 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 18:15 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-02-04 21:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-05 7:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20190205072407.GA4311-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2019-02-05 16:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-26 16:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-04 18:14 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-02-04 20:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-20 16:13 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-03-20 21:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-22 0:05 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-03-23 21:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-25 0:57 ` David Gibson
2019-04-17 21:42 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-04-17 21:42 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
[not found] ` <20190323165456-mutt-send-email-mst-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2019-04-17 21:42 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-04-17 21:42 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-04-19 23:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-19 23:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-25 1:01 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-04-25 1:01 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
[not found] ` <875zr228zf.fsf-wxVGo8vDogbJvNEK5ZsId7p2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2019-04-25 1:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-25 1:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-04-26 23:56 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-04-26 23:56 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-05-20 13:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-05-20 13:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-06-04 1:13 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-06-04 1:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-06-28 1:58 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-07-01 14:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-14 5:51 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-07-15 14:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-15 20:29 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-07-15 20:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-15 22:03 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-07-15 22:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-15 23:05 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-07-15 23:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-07-18 3:39 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2019-08-10 18:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-10 22:07 ` Ram Pai
2019-08-11 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-11 6:46 ` Ram Pai [this message]
2019-08-11 8:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-12 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-12 20:29 ` Ram Pai
2019-08-11 8:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-11 8:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-12 12:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-06 5:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-08-12 9:51 ` David Gibson
2019-08-13 13:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-13 14:24 ` David Gibson
2019-08-13 15:45 ` Ram Pai
2019-08-26 17:48 ` Ram Pai
2019-08-11 8:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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