Re: [RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-08-03 16:02:56
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-08-03 16:02:56
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lkml, virtualization
On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 10:58:36AM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2018-08-03 at 00:05 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:quoted
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2- Make virtio use the DMA API with our custom platform-provided swiotlb callbacks when needed, that is when not using IOMMU *and* running on a secure VM in our case.And total NAK the customer platform-provided part of this. We need a flag passed in from the hypervisor that the device needs all bus specific dma api treatment, and then just use the normal plaform dma mapping setup.Christoph, as I have explained already, we do NOT have a way to provide such a flag as neither the hypervisor nor qemu knows anything about this when the VM is created.
Well, if your setup is so fucked up I see no way to support it in Linux. Let's end the discussion right now then.