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* [PATCH] swiotlb v0.6: seperation of physical/virtual address translation
@ 2010-03-19 15:04 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
  2010-03-19 15:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] swiotlb: Make internal bookkeeping functions have 'swiotlb_bk' prefix Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2010-03-19 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: fujita.tomonori, linux-kernel, iommu, albert_herranz
  Cc: chrisw, jeremy, Ian.Campbell, dwmw2, alex.williamson

Fujita-san et al.

Attached is a set of patches that separate the address translation
(virt_to_phys, virt_to_bus, etc) from the SWIOTLB library.

Since the last posting I've:
 - Made the exported functions/variables have the 'swiotlb_bk' prefix instead
   of the 'do_[map|unmap]*' and 'io_tlb_*' combination.
 - dropped the checkpatches/other reworks patches.

I had not addressed the question of removing the 'overflow' buffer. There are over
~300 instances of the the DMA operations not being checked which plan on addressing
in a seperate set of patches that will slowly roll out the checks and then
finally the removal of the 'overflow' buffer.

.. and the writeup for this set set of patches:

The idea behind this set of patches is to make it possible to have separate
mechanisms for translating virtual to physical or virtual to DMA addresses
on platforms which need an SWIOTLB, and where physical != PCI bus address.

One customers of this is the pv-ops project, which can switch between
different modes of operation depending on the environment it is running in:
bare-metal or virtualized (Xen for now).

On bare-metal SWIOTLB is used when there are no hardware IOMMU. In virtualized
environment it used when PCI pass-through is enabled for the guest. The problems
with PCI pass-through is that the guest's idea of PFN's is not the real thing.
To fix that, there is translation layer for PFN->machine frame number and vice-versa.
To bubble that up to the SWIOTLB layer there are two possible solutions.

One solution has been to wholesale copy the SWIOTLB, stick it in
arch/x86/xen/swiotlb.c and modify the virt_to_phys, phys_to_virt and others
to use the Xen address translation functions. Unfortunately, since the kernel can
run on bare-metal, there would be big code overlap with the real SWIOTLB.
(git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git xen/dom0/swiotlb-new)

Another approach, which this set of patches explores, is to abstract the
address translation and address determination functions away from the
SWIOTLB book-keeping functions. This way the core SWIOTLB library functions
are present in one place, while the address related functions are in
a separate library that can be loaded when running under non-bare-metal platform.

The set of patches is also accessible on (with a user on top it):

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb-2.6.git swiotlb-0.6


 include/linux/swiotlb.h |   33 +++++
 lib/swiotlb.c           |  321 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 2 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)


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2010-03-19 15:04   ` [PATCH 2/5] swiotlb: swiotlb_bk_map_single: abstract out swiotlb_virt_to_bus calls out Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-19 15:04     ` [PATCH 3/5] swiotlb: Make all bookkeeping functions and variables have same prefix Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-19 15:04       ` [PATCH 4/5] swiotlb: Make swiotlb bookkeeping functions visible in the header file Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-19 15:04         ` [PATCH 5/5] swiotlb: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL functions + variables that are defined " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-04-05  2:13         ` [PATCH 4/5] swiotlb: Make swiotlb bookkeeping functions visible " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-04-07 19:22           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-25 13:56 ` [PATCH] swiotlb v0.6: seperation of physical/virtual address translation Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-25 23:01   ` Albert Herranz
2010-04-05  2:12 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-04-07 19:28   ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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