On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:13:58PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:34:59AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> >> On 29/01/16 02:31, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > ---
> >> > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> >> > index c169c6444637..305c05cc249a 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> >> > @@ -47,6 +47,18 @@
> >> >
> >> > static bool vring_use_dma_api(void)
> >> > {
> >> > +#if defined(CONFIG_X86) && defined(CONFIG_XEN)
> >> > + /*
> >> > + * In theory, it's possible to have a buggy QEMU-supposed
> >> > + * emulated Q35 IOMMU and Xen enabled at the same time. On
> >> > + * such a configuration, virtio has never worked and will
> >> > + * not work without an even larger kludge. Instead, enable
> >> > + * the DMA API if we're a Xen guest, which at least allows
> >> > + * all of the sensible Xen configurations to work correctly.
> >> > + */
> >> > + return static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV);
> >>
> >> You want:
> >>
> >> if (xen_domain())
> >> return true;
> >>
> >> Without the #if so we use the DMA API for all types of Xen guest on all
> >> architectures.
> >>
> >> David
> >
> > I doubt HVM domains can have virtio devices.
> >
>
> They certainly can under nested virt (L0 provides virtio device, L1 is
> Xen, and L2 is Linux). Of course, this won't work given the current
> QEMU situation unless Xen can pass things through to dom0 without an
> IOMMU, which seems plausible to me.
>
> But yes, xen_domain() sounds right to me. I just failed to find that
> function when I wrote this patch.
>
> Michael, if you like the rest of the series, I'd be okay if you
> changed this patch to use xen_domain() when you apply it. If I send a
> v2, I'll fix it up.
>
> --Andy
I'd rather you just posted a tested v2 of 9/10 for now as I don't test
Xen. It seems easy but I had more than my share of obvious fixes
failing spectacularly.
--
MST
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