From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] virtio: Clean up scatterlists and use the DMA API Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:07:36 +0200 Message-ID: <55B889C8.4040000@siemens.com> References: <55B73A49.9050206@redhat.com> <1438078345.7562.133.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <55B7799C.3060908@redhat.com> <20150728160358-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <55B77F8C.7010804@siemens.com> <55B7B15C.4010101@siemens.com> <55B7B91E.40200@siemens.com> <55B7D2A9.6040700@siemens.com> <55B7D8F5.1000902@siemens.com> <1438125694.7562.177.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1438125694.7562.177.camel@kernel.crashing.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andy Lutomirski Cc: "linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , xen-devel , Christian Borntraeger , Paolo Bonzini , "linux390@de.ibm.com" , Linux Virtualization List-ID: On 2015-07-29 01:21, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 15:43 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> New QEMU >> always advertises this feature flag. If iommu=on, QEMU's virtio >> devices refuse to work unless the driver acknowledges the flag. > > This should be configurable. Advertisement of that flag must be configurable, or we won't be able to run older guests anymore which don't know it, thus will reject it. The only precondition: there must be no IOMMU if we turn it off. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux