Hi Andy,
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:17:09PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> From: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
>
> virtio_ring currently sends the device (usually a hypervisor)
> physical addresses of its I/O buffers. This is okay when DMA
> addresses and physical addresses are the same thing, but this isn't
> always the case. For example, this never works on Xen guests, and
> it is likely to fail if a physical "virtio" device ever ends up
> behind an IOMMU or swiotlb.
The overall code looks good, but I havn't seen and dma_sync* calls.
When swiotlb=force is in use this would break.
> + vq->vring.desc[head].addr = cpu_to_virtio64(_vq->vdev,
> vring_map_single(
> + vq,
> + desc, total_sg * sizeof(struct vring_desc),
> + DMA_TO_DEVICE));
Nit: I think readability could be improved here by using a temporary
variable for the return value of vring_map_single().
Joerg
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