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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/13] pseries: Implement IOMMU and DMA for PAPR
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David Gibson |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/13] pseries: Implement IOMMU and DMA for PAPR PCI devices |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:58:47 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:23:58AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 09/03/2012 06:01, David Gibson ha scritto:
> > Currently the pseries machine emulation does not support DMA for emulated
> > PCI devices, because the PAPR spec always requires a (guest visible,
> > paravirtualized) IOMMU which was not implemented. Now that we have
> > infrastructure for IOMMU emulation, we can correct this and allow PCI DMA
> > for pseries.
> >
> > With the existing PAPR IOMMU code used for VIO devices, this is almost
> > trivial. We use a single DMAContext for each (virtual) PCI host bridge,
> > which is the usual configuration on real PAPR machines (which often have
> > _many_ PCI host bridges).
>
> What about virtio?
virtio doesn't use virtualized PCI DMA, it uses direct hypervisor
access to guest memory, by guest physical address. It *shouldn't*,
but it does - that's the way it's specced and that's the way the guest
kernel expects it to be. It could be fixed with a new feature bit,
but that's a project for another day.
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/13] iommu: Make sglists and dma_bdrv helpers use new universal DMA helpers, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/13] usb-ohci: Use universal DMA helper functions, David Gibson, 2012/03/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/13] usb-xhci: Use PCI DMA helper functions, David Gibson, 2012/03/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, David Gibson, 2012/03/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, David Gibson, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, Alexander Graf, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, David Gibson, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, Alexander Graf, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure, David Gibson, 2012/03/14