linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 09/10] vring: Use the DMA API on Xen

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:31:22 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 09/10] vring: Use the DMA API on Xen

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index c169c6444637..305c05cc249a 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -47,6 +47,18 @@
 
 static bool vring_use_dma_api(void)
 {
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86) && defined(CONFIG_XEN)
+	/*
+	 * In theory, it's possible to have a buggy QEMU-supposed
+	 * emulated Q35 IOMMU and Xen enabled at the same time.  On
+	 * such a configuration, virtio has never worked and will
+	 * not work without an even larger kludge.  Instead, enable
+	 * the DMA API if we're a Xen guest, which at least allows
+	 * all of the sensible Xen configurations to work correctly.
+	 */
+	return static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV);
+#endif
+
 	return false;
 }
 
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