From d26c96c8102549f91eb0bea6196d54711ab52176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 21:46:35 -0800 Subject: vring: Introduce vring_use_dma_api() This is a kludge, but no one has come up with a a better idea yet. We'll introduce DMA API support guarded by vring_use_dma_api(). Eventually we may be able to return true on more and more systems, and hopefully we can get rid of vring_use_dma_api() entirely some day. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index e12e385f7ac3..ab0be6c084f6 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -104,6 +104,30 @@ 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. + * + * On most systems with virtio, physical addresses match bus addresses, + * and it doesn't particularly matter whether we use the DMA API. + * + * On some systems, including Xen and any system with a physical device + * that speaks virtio behind a physical IOMMU, we must use the DMA API + * for virtio DMA to work at all. + * + * 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. + * + * For the time being, we preserve historic behavior and bypass the DMA + * API. + */ + +static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev) +{ + return false; +} + static struct vring_desc *alloc_indirect(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int total_sg, gfp_t gfp) { -- cgit v1.2.3