Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:19:11 +0000 | From | Stefano Stabellini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm/xen: Don't use xen DMA ops when the device is protected by an IOMMU |
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CC'ing Greg.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:21 +0000, Julien Grall wrote: > > Only Xen is able to know if a device can safely avoid to use xen-swiotlb. > > This patch introduce a new property "protected-devices" for the hypervisor > > node which list device which the IOMMU are been correctly programmed by Xen. > > > > During Linux boot, Xen specific code will create an hash table which > > contains all these devices. The hash table will be used in need_xen_dma_ops > > to check if the Xen DMA ops needs to be used for the current device. > > Is it out of the question to find a field within struct device itself to > store this e.g. in struct device_dma_parameters perhaps and avoid the > need for a hashtable lookup. > > device->iommu_group might be another option, if we can create our own > group?
I agree that a field in struct device would be ideal. Greg, get_maintainer.pl points at you as main maintainer of device.h, do you have an opinion on this?
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