Re: [PATCH] VMXNET3: Add support for virtual IOMMU

From: Andy King
Date: Wed Aug 21 2013 - 09:37:39 EST


Adding Greg, since this will apply to a similar patchset I sent out
for VMCI.

----- Original Message -----
> From: Andy King <acking@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:33:32 -0700
>
> > We can't just do virt_to_phys() on memory that we pass to the device and
> > expect it to work in presence of a virtual IOMMU. We need to add IOMMU
> > mappings for such DMAs to work correctly. Fix that with
> > pci_alloc_consistent() where possible, or pci_map_single() where the
> > mapping is short-lived or we don't control the allocation (netdev).
>
> Please use dma_alloc_coherent() (or in fact dma_zalloc_coherent()),
> dma_map_single() et al., because they are preferred and in particular
> allow specification of GFP_* flags

Sorry about that, I'll fix that and send out a new patch.

Thanks!
- Andy
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