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From: Benjamin Leggett <benjamin@edera.io>
To: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
Cc: 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>,
	 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: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:48:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875x17tj4a.fsf@edera.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <657a88d7-e1d4-46ee-9b79-b33144e749dd@collabora.com>

Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> writes:

> 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!

Thanks, a proposed followup for the Sashiko-bot reported issue
submitted: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260814-virtgpu-from-host-sync-v4-1-64dd736b1779@edera.io/

      reply	other threads:[~2026-08-18 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ 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
2026-08-18 17:48   ` Benjamin Leggett [this message]

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