On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 20:19 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > I see. So yes, given that device does not know or care, using > virtio features is an awkward fit. > > So let's say as a quick fix for you maybe we could generalize the > xen_domain hack, instead of just checking xen_domain check some static > branch. Then teach xen and others to enable that.> > OK but problem then becomes this: if you do this and virtio device appears > behind a vIOMMU and it does not advertize the IOMMU flag, the > code will try to use the vIOMMU mappings and fail. > > It does look like even with trick above, you need a special version of > DMA ops that does just swiotlb but not any of the other things DMA API > might do. > > Thoughts? Yes, this is the purpose of Anshuman original patch (I haven't looked at the details of the patch in a while but that's what I told him to implement ;-) : - Make virtio always use DMA ops to simplify the code path (with a set of "transparent" ops for legacy) and - Provide an arch hook allowing us to "override" those "transparent" DMA ops with some custom ones that do the appropriate swiotlb gunk. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
