Re: [PATCH v3] virtio: new feature to detect IOMMU device quirk

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 05:38:23AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

On other systems, including SPARC and PPC64, virtio-pci devices are
enumerated as though they are behind an IOMMU, but the virtio host
ignores the IOMMU, so we must either pretend that the IOMMU isn't
there or somehow map everything as the identity.

Add a feature bit to detect that quirk: VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM.

Any device with this feature bit set to 0 needs a quirk and has to be
passed physical addresses (as opposed to bus addresses) even though
the device is behind an IOMMU.

This is the wrong way around.

Note: it has to be a per-device quirk because for example, there could
be a mix of passed-through and virtual virtio devices. As another
example, some devices could be implemented by an out of process
hypervisor backend (in case of qemu vhost, or vhost-user) and so support
for an IOMMU needs to be coded up separately.

It would be cleanest to handle this in IOMMU core code, but that needs
per-device DMA ops. While we are waiting for that to be implemented, use
a work-around in virtio core.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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wanted to use per-device dma ops but that does not
seem to be ready. So let's put this in virtio
code for now, and move when it becomes possible.

So work on making it ready.  We're close to there, and given that
virtio needs it, finish it off.  We now have everyone using the
operation vectors for DMA, so the only thing you need is a dma_ops
pointer in struct device initialized to what get_dma_ops returns.