Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] s390/pv: fix the forcing of the swiotlb

Will Deacon
2021-07-27T12:58:02Z

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:54:14PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> On 24.07.21 02:27, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 01:17:46AM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:
> > > Since commit 903cd0f315fe ("swiotlb: Use is_swiotlb_force_bounce for
> > > swiotlb data bouncing") if code sets swiotlb_force it needs to do so
> > > before the swiotlb is initialised. Otherwise
> > > io_tlb_default_mem->force_bounce will not get set to true, and devices
> > > that use (the default) swiotlb will not bounce despite switolb_force
> > > having the value of SWIOTLB_FORCE.
> > >
> > > Let us restore swiotlb functionality for PV by fulfilling this new
> > > requirement.
> > >
> > > This change addresses what turned out to be a fragility in
> > > commit 64e1f0c531d1 ("s390/mm: force swiotlb for protected
> > > virtualization"), which ain't exactly broken in its original context,
> > > but could give us some more headache if people backport the broken
> > > change and forget this fix.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
> > > Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> > > Fixes: 903cd0f315fe ("swiotlb: Use is_swiotlb_force_bounce for swiotlb data bouncing")
> > > Fixes: 64e1f0c531d1 ("s390/mm: force swiotlb for protected virtualization")
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #5.3+
> > >
> > > ---
> >
> > Picked it up and stuck it in linux-next with the other set of patches (Will's fixes).
>
> Can you push out to kernel.org?

It's pushed to the swiotlb tree:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb.git/log/?h=devel/for-linus-5.15

Since none of the restricted DMA series is in mainline yet, I don't think
it's needed anywhere else.

Will