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Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] virtio DMA API, yet again

From Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] virtio DMA API, yet again
Date 2016-02-02 11:00 +0100
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On 02/01/2016 07:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This switches virtio to use the DMA API on Xen and if requested by
> module option.
> 
> This fixes virtio on Xen, and it should break anything because it's
> off by default on everything except Xen PV on x86.
> 
> To the Xen people: is this okay?  If it doesn't work on other Xen
> variants (PVH? HVM?), can you submit follow-up patches to fix it?
> 
> To everyone else: we've waffled on this for way too long.  I think
> we should to get DMA API implementation in with a conservative
> policy like this rather than waiting until we achieve perfection.
> I'm tired of carrying these patches around.

I used your branch pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git virtio_dma
on kernel.org.

It seems to survive a basic test (simple block and net) on s390 with
and without dma api enabled. No full test, though.

> 
> Michael, if these survive review, can you stage these in your tree?
> Can you also take a look at tools/virtio?  I probably broke it, but I
> couldn't get it to build without these patches either, so I'm stuck.
> 
> Changes from v5:
>  - Typo fixes (David Woodhouse)
>  - Use xen_domain() to detect Xen (David Vrabel)
>  - Pass struct vring_virtqueue * into vring_use_dma_api for future proofing
>  - Removed module parameter (Michael)
> 
> Changes from v4:
>  - Bake vring_use_dma_api in from the beginning.
>  - Automatically enable only on Xen.
>  - Add module parameter.
>  - Add s390 and alpha DMA API implementations.
>  - Rebase to 4.5-rc1.
> 
> Changes from v3:
>  - More big-endian fixes.
>  - Added better virtio-ring APIs that handle allocation and use them in
>    virtio-mmio and virtio-pci.
>  - Switch to Michael's virtio-net patch.
> 
> Changes from v2:
>  - Fix vring_mapping_error incorrect argument
> 
> Changes from v1:
>  - Fix an endian conversion error causing a BUG to hit.
>  - Fix a DMA ordering issue (swiotlb=force works now).
>  - Minor cleanups.
> 
> Andy Lutomirski (6):
>   vring: Introduce vring_use_dma_api()
>   virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs
>   virtio: Add improved queue allocation API
>   virtio_mmio: Use the DMA API if enabled
>   virtio_pci: Use the DMA API if enabled
>   vring: Use the DMA API on Xen
> 
> Christian Borntraeger (3):
>   dma: Provide simple noop dma ops
>   alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops
>   s390/dma: Allow per device dma ops
> 
>  arch/alpha/kernel/pci-noop.c        |  46 +---
>  arch/s390/Kconfig                   |   6 +-
>  arch/s390/include/asm/device.h      |   6 +-
>  arch/s390/include/asm/dma-mapping.h |   6 +-
>  arch/s390/pci/pci.c                 |   1 +
>  arch/s390/pci/pci_dma.c             |   4 +-
>  drivers/virtio/Kconfig              |   2 +-
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c        |  67 ++----
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h  |   6 -
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c  |  42 ++--
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c  |  61 ++----
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c        | 408 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  include/linux/dma-mapping.h         |   2 +
>  include/linux/virtio.h              |  23 +-
>  include/linux/virtio_ring.h         |  35 ++++
>  lib/Makefile                        |   1 +
>  lib/dma-noop.c                      |  75 +++++++
>  tools/virtio/linux/dma-mapping.h    |  17 ++
>  18 files changed, 564 insertions(+), 244 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/dma-noop.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/virtio/linux/dma-mapping.h
> 

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[PATCH v6 0/9] virtio DMA API, yet again Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-02-01 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH v6 9/9] vring: Use the DMA API on Xen Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-02-01 19:10 +0100
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 9/9] vring: Use the DMA API on Xen Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> - 2016-02-01 22:30 +0100
  [PATCH v6 8/9] virtio_pci: Use the DMA API if enabled Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-02-01 19:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] virtio DMA API, yet again Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-02 11:00 +0100

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