[PATCH v2 1/3] xen/arm: introduce XENFEAT_grant_map_11
Ian Campbell
Ian.Campbell at citrix.com
Tue Jul 8 08:59:10 PDT 2014
On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 16:54 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 16:42 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > The flag tells us that the hypervisor maps a grant page to guest
> > > physical address == machine address of the page in addition to the
> > > normal grant mapping address. It is needed to properly issue cache
> > > maintenance operation at the completion of a DMA operation involving a
> > > foreign grant.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 6 ++++++
> > > include/xen/interface/features.h | 3 +++
> > > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> > > index b96723e..ee3135a 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> > > @@ -262,6 +262,12 @@ static int __init xen_guest_init(void)
> > > xen_domain_type = XEN_HVM_DOMAIN;
> > >
> > > xen_setup_features();
> > > +
> > > + if (!xen_feature(XENFEAT_grant_map_11)) {
> > > + pr_warn("Please upgrade your Xen.\n"
> > > + "If your platform has any non-coherent DMA devices, they won't work properly.\n");
> > > + }
> >
> > Unfortunately this isn't quite complete. On a system where all devices
> > are behind an SMMU then we would want to be able to disable the 1:1
> > workaround, which in turn would imply disabling this feature flag too
> > (since it is no longer necessary and also impossible to implement in
> > that case).
>
> That is true, but in such a system we would have to tell the kernel that
> DMAing is safe, so this will turn into:
Oh right, yes. Good then ;-)
>
> if (!xen_feature(XENFEAT_grant_map_11) &&
> !xen_feature(XENFEAT_safe_dma)) {
> pr_warn("Please upgrade your Xen.\n"
> "If your platform has any non-coherent DMA devices, they won't work properly.\n");
> }
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