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Julien Grall 36f8abd36f xen/biomerge: Don't allow biovec's to be merged when Linux is not using 4KB pages
On ARM all dma-capable devices on a same platform may not be protected
by an IOMMU. The DMA requests have to use the BFN (i.e MFN on ARM) in
order to use correctly the device.

While the DOM0 memory is allocated in a 1:1 fashion (PFN == MFN), grant
mapping will screw this contiguous mapping.

When Linux is using 64KB page granularitary, the page may be split
accross multiple non-contiguous MFN (Xen is using 4KB page
granularity). Therefore a DMA request will likely fail.

Checking that a 64KB page is using contiguous MFN is tedious. For
now, always says that biovec are not mergeable.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-10-23 14:20:36 +01:00
Julien Grall 32e09870ee xen: Make clear that swiotlb and biomerge are dealing with DMA address
The swiotlb is required when programming a DMA address on ARM when a
device is not protected by an IOMMU.

In this case, the DMA address should always be equal to the machine address.
For DOM0 memory, Xen ensure it by have an identity mapping between the
guest address and host address. However, when mapping a foreign grant
reference, the 1:1 model doesn't work.

For ARM guest, most of the callers of pfn_to_mfn expects to get a GFN
(Guest Frame Number), i.e a PFN (Page Frame Number) from the Linux point
of view given that all ARM guest are auto-translated.

Even though the name pfn_to_mfn is misleading, we need to ensure that
those caller get a GFN and not by mistake a MFN. In pratical, I haven't
seen error related to this but we should fix it for the sake of
correctness.

In order to fix the implementation of pfn_to_mfn on ARM in a follow-up
patch, we have to introduce new helpers to return the DMA from a PFN and
the invert.

On x86, the new helpers will be an alias of pfn_to_mfn and mfn_to_pfn.

The helpers will be used in swiotlb and xen_biovec_phys_mergeable.

This is necessary in the latter because we have to ensure that the
biovec code will not try to merge a biovec using foreign page and
another using Linux memory.

Lastly, the helper mfn_to_local_pfn has been renamed to bfn_to_local_pfn
given that the only usage was in swiotlb.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-09-08 17:10:52 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell 9ef9b20bd0 xen: using EXPORT_SYMBOL requires including export.h
Fix these warnings:

  drivers/xen/biomerge.c:14:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default]
  drivers/xen/biomerge.c:14:1: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL' [-Wimplicit-int]
  drivers/xen/biomerge.c:14:1: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration [enabled by default]

And this build error:

  ERROR: "xen_biovec_phys_mergeable" [drivers/block/nvme.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-18 15:37:49 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox 0b934ccd70 Xen: Export xen_biovec_phys_mergeable
When Xen is enabled, using BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE in a module
causes xen_biovec_phys_mergeable to be referenced, so it needs
to be exported.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
2011-11-04 15:41:27 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge d8e0420603 xen: define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE()
Impact: allow Xen control of bio merging

When running in Xen domain with device access, we need to make sure
the block subsystem doesn't merge requests across pages which aren't
machine physically contiguous.  To do this, we define our own
BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE.  When CONFIG_XEN isn't enabled, or we're not
running in a Xen domain, this has identical behaviour to the normal
implementation.  When running under Xen, we also make sure the
underlying machine pages are the same or adjacent.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2010-10-18 10:40:28 -04:00