Re: [PATCH v11 09/12] swiotlb: Add restricted DMA alloc/free support

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:10:02PM +0800, Claire Chang wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:59 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:04:16PM +0800, Claire Chang wrote:
> > > Just noticed that after propagating swiotlb_force setting into
> > > io_tlb_default_mem->force, the memory allocation behavior for
> > > swiotlb_force will change (i.e. always skipping arch_dma_alloc and
> > > dma_direct_alloc_from_pool).
> >
> > Yes, I think we need to split a "use_for_alloc" flag from the force flag.
> 
> How about splitting is_dev_swiotlb_force into is_swiotlb_force_bounce
> (io_tlb_mem->force_bounce) and is_swiotlb_force_alloc
> (io_tlb_mem->force_alloc)?

Yes, something like that.  I'd probably not use force for the alloc side
given that we otherwise never allocte from the swiotlb buffer.



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