VirtIO for KVM is a primary way to provide IO. All memory that used for communication with the host has to be marked as shared. The easiest way to archive that is to use DMA API that already knows how to deal with shared memory. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index becc77697960..ace733845d5d 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/hrtimer.h> #include <linux/dma-mapping.h> #include <xen/xen.h> +#include <asm/kvm_para.h> #ifdef DEBUG /* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */ @@ -255,6 +256,9 @@ static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev) if (xen_domain()) return true; + if (kvm_mem_protected()) + return true; + return false; } -- 2.26.2
