[+Jason, Ben] On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:29:05AM -0500, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > For pass-through device assignment, the ARM64 KVM hypervisor retrieves > the memory region properties physical address, size, and whether a > region backed with struct page or not from VMA. The prefetchable > attribute of a BAR region isn't visible to KVM to make an optimal > decision for stage2 attributes. > > This patch updates vma->vm_page_prot and maps with write-combine > attribute if the associated BAR is prefetchable. For ARM64 > pgprot_writecombine() is mapped to memory-type MT_NORMAL_NC which > has no side effects on reads and multiple writes can be combined. > > Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) A bit of background information that may be useful: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/2b539df4c9ec703458e46da2fc879ee3b310b31c.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Lorenzo > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c > index 5023e23db3bc..1b734fe1dd51 100644 > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c > @@ -1703,7 +1703,11 @@ static int vfio_pci_mmap(void *device_data, struct vm_area_struct *vma) > } > > vma->vm_private_data = vdev; > - vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot); > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64) && > + (pci_resource_flags(pdev, index) & IORESOURCE_PREFETCH)) > + vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vma->vm_page_prot); > + else > + vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot); > vma->vm_pgoff = (pci_resource_start(pdev, index) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + pgoff; > > /* > -- > 2.17.1 > _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm