From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753794AbcBASDh (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:03:37 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:48678 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752958AbcBASBO (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:01:14 -0500 From: Andy Lutomirski To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 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 Subject: [PATCH v6 4/9] vring: Introduce vring_use_dma_api() Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 10:00:54 -0800 Message-Id: <336edab2e5b4825abe899e10aa4368770362daf9.1454349471.git.luto@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a kludge, but no one has come up with a a better idea yet. We'll introduce DMA API support guarded by vring_use_dma_api(). Eventually we may be able to return true on more and more systems, and hopefully we can get rid of vring_use_dma_api() entirely some day. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index e12e385f7ac3..b78aeeb3f6be 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -104,6 +104,30 @@ struct vring_virtqueue { #define to_vvq(_vq) container_of(_vq, struct vring_virtqueue, vq) +/* + * The interaction between virtio and a possible IOMMU is a mess. + * + * On most systems with virtio, physical addresses match bus addresses, + * and it doesn't particularly matter whether we use the DMA API. + * + * On some systems, including Xen and any system with a physical device + * that speaks virtio behind a physical IOMMU, we must use the DMA API + * for virtio DMA to work at all. + * + * On other systems, including SPARC and PPC64, virtio-pci devices are + * enumerated as though they are behind an IOMMU, but the virtio host + * ignores the IOMMU, so we must either pretend that the IOMMU isn't + * there or somehow map everything as the identity. + * + * For the time being, we preserve historic behavior and bypass the DMA + * API. + */ + +static bool vring_use_dma_api(const struct vring_virtqueue *vq) +{ + return false; +} + static struct vring_desc *alloc_indirect(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int total_sg, gfp_t gfp) { -- 2.5.0