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SubjectRe: [RFC] virtio: Use DMA MAP API for devices without an IOMMU
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 01:09:43AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 17:54 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:09:30PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > > On 04/05/2018 04:26 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > > > There are certian platforms which would like to use SWIOTLB based DMA API
> > > > for bouncing purpose without actually requiring an IOMMU back end. But the
> > > > virtio core does not allow such mechanism. Right now DMA MAP API is only
> > > > selected for devices which have an IOMMU and then the QEMU/host back end
> > > > will process all incoming SG buffer addresses as IOVA instead of simple
> > > > GPA which is the case for simple bounce buffers after being processed with
> > > > SWIOTLB API. To enable this usage, it introduces an architecture specific
> > > > function which will just make virtio core front end select DMA operations
> > > > structure.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > + "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> >
> > I'm confused by this.
> >
> > static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> > {
> > if (!virtio_has_iommu_quirk(vdev))
> > return true;
> >
> >
> > Why doesn't setting VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM on the
> > hypervisor side sufficient?
>
> In this specific case, because that would make qemu expect an iommu,
> and there isn't one.


I think that you can set iommu_platform in qemu without an iommu.


> Anshuman, you need to provide more background here. I don't have time
> right now it's late, but explain about the fact that this is for a
> specific type of secure VM which has only a limited pool of (insecure)
> memory that can be shared with qemu, so all IOs need to bounce via that
> pool, which can be achieved by using swiotlb.
>
> Note: this isn't urgent, we can discuss alternative approaches, this is
> just to start the conversation.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.

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