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Message-ID: <20190124084107.GA19441@lst.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:41:07 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, jfehlig@...e.com,
jon.grimm@....com, brijesh.singh@....com, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] swiotlb: Add is_swiotlb_active() function
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 09:29:23AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > As I've just introduced and fixed a bug in this area in the current
> > cycle - I don't think no_iotlb_memory is what your want (and maybe
> > not useful at all): if the arch valls swiotlb_exit after previously
> > initializing a buffer it won't be set. You probably want to check
> > for non-zero io_tlb_start and/or io_tlb_end.
>
> Okay, but that requires that I also set io_tlb_start and friends back to
> zero in the failure path of swiotlb_init(). Otherwise it could be left
> non-zero in case swiotlb_init_with_tbl() returns an error.
Indeed, and we'll need to do that anyway as otherwise the dma mapping
path might cause problems similar to the one when swiotlb_exit is
called that I fixed.
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