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From: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
To: benjamin@edera.io, David Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@chromium.org>,
	Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@gmail.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:41:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <657a88d7-e1d4-46ee-9b79-b33144e749dd@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806-virtgpu-xen-dma-v1-1-e499b345bbad@edera.io>

On 8/7/26 01:54, Benjamin Leggett via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Benjamin Leggett <benjamin@edera.io>
> 
> On a Xen PV domain page addresses bear no relation to the real machine
> addresses the host would have to use to reach it.
> virtio_ring.c handles this correctly, vring_use_map_api() returns true
> for any xen_domain() regardless of VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM.
> 
> virtio-gpu makes the same decision independently, but its copy
> looks only at the feature bit:
> 
> 	bool use_dma_api = !virtio_has_dma_quirk(vgdev->vdev);
> 
> QEMU does not set iommu_platform on virtio-vga by default, so
> VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM is not negotiated, use_dma_api is false, and
> virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() describes the framebuffer's backing pages
> to the host with sg_phys().  Those are guest-physical addresses. In a PV
> domain they resolve, on the host side, to pages belonging to some other
> domain, so the host scans out unrelated memory.
> 
> Move the decision into virtio_gpu_use_dma_api() and give it the
> xen_domain() check, like vring_use_map_api() has. This
> additionally enables the dma_sync_sgtable_for_device() calls in
> virtgpu_vq.c, which are required for correctness whenever swiotlb
> is in play.
> 
> Reproduced with a Xen 4.21 PV dom0 nested inside QEMU 8.2 with
> virtio-vga, on both a distro 6.8 kernel and 6.18 LTS. A PVH dom0
> works fine and doesn't need this fix because it is identity-mapped,
> only PV dom0s are affected.
> 
> Fixes: a3b815f09bb8 ("drm/virtio: add iommu support.")
> Signed-off-by: Ben Leggett <benjamin@edera.io>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.h    | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c     |  6 +++---
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Feel free to send follow-up patches to fix problems reported by the
Sashiko bot.

Applied to drm-misc-fixes, thanks!

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-14 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-06 22:54 [PATCH] drm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen Benjamin Leggett via B4 Relay
2026-08-11 15:49 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2026-08-14 13:41 ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]

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