The default behaviour for virtio devices is not to use the platforms normal
DMA paths, but instead to use the fact that it's running in a hypervisor
to directly access guest memory. That doesn't work if the guest's memory
is protected from hypervisor access, such as with AMD's SEV or POWER's PEF.
So, if a securable guest memory mechanism is enabled, then apply the
iommu_platform=on option so it will go through normal DMA mechanisms.
Those will presumably have some way of marking memory as shared with
the hypervisor or hardware so that DMA will work.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
hw/core/machine.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
index a67a27d03c..d16273d75d 100644
--- a/hw/core/machine.c
+++ b/hw/core/machine.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
#include "hw/mem/nvdimm.h"
#include "migration/vmstate.h"
#include "exec/securable-guest-memory.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h"
GlobalProperty hw_compat_5_1[] = {
{ "vhost-scsi", "num_queues", "1"},
@@ -1169,6 +1171,17 @@ void machine_run_board_init(MachineState *machine)
* areas.
*/
machine_set_mem_merge(OBJECT(machine), false, &error_abort);
+
+ /*
+ * Virtio devices can't count on directly accessing guest
+ * memory, so they need iommu_platform=on to use normal DMA
+ * mechanisms. That requires also disabling legacy virtio
+ * support for those virtio pci devices which allow it.
+ */
+ object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_PCI, "disable-legacy",
+ "on", true);
+ object_register_sugar_prop(TYPE_VIRTIO_DEVICE, "iommu_platform",
+ "on", false);
}
machine_class->init(machine);
--
2.28.0
