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-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index ca6bfddaacad..114a0c88afb8 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -117,7 +117,10 @@ struct vring_virtqueue {
#define to_vvq(_vq) container_of(_vq, struct vring_virtqueue, vq)
/*
- * The interaction between virtio and a possible IOMMU is a mess.
+ * Modern virtio devices have feature bits to specify whether they need a
+ * quirk and bypass the IOMMU. If not there, just use the DMA API.
+ *
+ * If there, the interaction between virtio and DMA API is messy.
*
* On most systems with virtio, physical addresses match bus addresses,
* and it doesn't particularly matter whether we use the DMA API.
@@ -133,10 +136,18 @@ struct vring_virtqueue {
*
* For the time being, we preserve historic behavior and bypass the DMA
* API.
+ *
+ * TODO: install a per-device DMA ops structure that does the right thing
+ * taking into account all the above quirks, and use the DMA API
+ * unconditionally on data path.
*/
static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
+ if (!virtio_has_iommu_quirk(vdev))
+ return true;
+
+ /* Otherwise, we are left to guess. */
/*
* In theory, it's possible to have a buggy QEMU-supposed
* emulated Q35 IOMMU and Xen enabled at the same time. On
@@ -1099,6 +1110,8 @@ void vring_transport_features(struct virtio_device *vdev)
break;
case VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1:
break;
+ case VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM:
+ break;
default:
/* We don't understand this bit. */
__virtio_clear_bit(vdev, i);