Re: [PATCH V1 3/6] xen/virtio: Add option to restrict memory access under Xen

[Oleksandr <olekstysh@gmail.com>]

On 23.04.22 12:10, Juergen Gross wrote:

Hello Juergen

> On 23.04.22 09:05, Oleksandr wrote:
>>
>> On 23.04.22 02:00, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>
>> Hello Stefano
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, Oleksandr Tyshchenko wrote:
>>>> From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>>>
>>>> Introduce Xen grant DMA-mapping layer which contains special 
>>>> DMA-mapping
>>>> routines for providing grant references as DMA addresses to be used by
>>>> frontends (e.g. virtio) in Xen guests.
>>>>
>>>> In order to support virtio in Xen guests add a config option 
>>>> XEN_VIRTIO
>>>> enabling the user to specify whether in all Xen guests virtio should
>>>> be able to access memory via Xen grant mappings only on the host side.
>>>>
>>>> As this also requires providing 
>>>> arch_has_restricted_virtio_memory_access
>>>> implementation, switch from a pure stub to a real function on Arm
>>>> and combine with existing implementation for the SEV guests on x86.
>>>>
>>>> Add the needed functionality by providing a special set of DMA ops
>>>> handling the needed grant operations for the I/O pages.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
>>> There are a couple of minor things that checkpatch.pl reports,
>>
>> Thank you for pointing this out, my fault.
>>
>>
>>>   but aside
>>> from those the patch looks fine to me.
>>
>> good
>>
>>
>> The attached diff to be squashed for the new version. One thing remains:
>>
>> checkpatch.pl says regarding drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c:
>>
>> WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need 
>> updating?
>> #151:
>> new file mode 100644
>>
>>
>> Which, I assume, this is not an issue as new file falls under XEN 
>> HYPERVISOR INTERFACE maintainership?
>
> Yes.


ok, thank you for the confirmation.


>
>
> Juergen

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Regards,

Oleksandr Tyshchenko