This is an RFC to check if I am on the right track. There are some attempts to unify the dma ops (Christoph) as well as some attempts to make virtio use the dma API (Andy). At todays discussion at the kernel summit, we concluded that we want to use the same code on all platforms, whereever possible, so having a dummy dma_op might be the easiest solution to keep virtio-ccw as similar as possible to virtio-pci. Andy Lutomirski will rework his patchset to unconditionally use the dma ops. We will also need a compatibility quirk for powerpc to bypass the iommu mappings on older QEMU version (which translates to all versions as of today) and per device, e.g. via device tree. Ben Herrenschmidt will look into that. Here is a very quick (still untested) shot at providing the s390 part: - patch1: dummy dma ops, inspired by the alpha code - patch2: replace some of the alpha functions with the dummy ones - patch3: allow per device dma ops for s390 - patch4: wire up virtio dma ops TODOs - test (s390 virtio-ccw with Andis changes, s390 pci) and review - check i386 nommu dma ops for potential improvements in the noop handlers - make dma-noop only compile when necessary Christian Borntraeger (4): Provide simple noop dma ops alpha: use common noop dma ops s390/dma: Allow per device dma ops s390/virtio: use noop dma ops arch/alpha/kernel/pci-noop.c | 46 ++-------------------- arch/s390/include/asm/device.h | 6 ++- arch/s390/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 2 +- arch/s390/pci/pci.c | 1 + drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c | 2 + drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 2 + include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 2 + lib/Makefile | 2 +- lib/dma-noop.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) create mode 100644 lib/dma-noop.c -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
