On 08/09/2017 09:39 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
On 08/07/17 13:58, Brijesh Singh wrote:
Currently, virtio drivers provides the system physical address to the device.
However, some systems may feature an IOMMU that requires the drivers to pass
the device addresses to the device - which are then translated by the IOMMU
into physical addresses in memory. The patch series introduces new member
functions in VIRTIO_DEVICE_PROTOCOL which can be used for mapping a system
physical address to device address.
The approach that this patch series takes is to maps the system physical
address to device address for buffers (including rings, device specifc
request and response pointed by vring descriptor, and any further memory
reference by those request and response).
Patch 1 - 3:
Defines and implements new member functions to map a system physical address
to device address. The patch implements Laszlo's suggestion [1].
(1) I guess under [1] you meant the following message:
841bec5f-6f6e-8b1f-25ba-0fd37a915b72@redhat.com">http://mid.mail-archive.com/841bec5f-6f6e-8b1f-25ba-0fd37a915b72@redhat.com
Yes, thank you :) I did not realized that I forgot adding the link.
If you want, you can add that link to the commit message of patch #1.
(2) But, that's not my main point here. Before I forget, I'd like to
point out that you missed one of the three virtio protocol
implementations -- see my point (5.4) in the above-referenced message
--, namely:
- "ArmVirtPkg/VirtioFdtDxe" (via
"OvmfPkg/Library/VirtioMmioDeviceLib") binds virtio-mmio devices,
and offers virtio 0.9.5 semantics.
So please replicate patch v1 03/14 to
"OvmfPkg/Library/VirtioMmioDeviceLib". Otherwise, the modified virtio
device drivers will crash when they are built for ArmVirtPkg and used
over virtio-mmio transports.
Sure, I will make the necessary changes in VirtioMmioDeviceLib and try
do the build test but I don't have aarch64 platform to verify at the
runtime.
(3) Starting with your v2, please add a reminder to your blurb -- for
Ard and myself -- that before merging this, we should regression-test it
on aarch64.
Will do
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