[PATCH] swiotlb: Allow allocating buffer anywhere in memory

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
Date: Sat Aug 15 2020 - 17:48:04 EST


POWER secure guests (i.e., guests which use the Protection Execution
Facility) need to use SWIOTLB to be able to do I/O with the hypervisor, but
they don't need the SWIOTLB memory to be in low addresses since the
hypervisor doesn't have any addressing limitation.

This solves a SWIOTLB initialization problem we are seeing in secure guests
with 128 GB of RAM: they are configured with 4 GB of crashkernel reserved
memory, which leaves no space for SWIOTLB in low addresses.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 7 ++++++-
include/linux/swiotlb.h | 8 +++++++-
kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 10 +++++++---
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Normally I would split changes like this into one patch touching generic
code and another for the arch-specific part, but in this case I thought it
would be unneeded complexity. I can split though if people prefer it that
way.

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index c2c11eb8dcfc..13f2e3aff8b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
#include <asm/swiotlb.h>
#include <asm/rtas.h>
#include <asm/kasan.h>
+#include <asm/svm.h>

#include <mm/mmu_decl.h>

@@ -290,7 +291,11 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
* back to to-down.
*/
memblock_set_bottom_up(true);
- swiotlb_init(0);
+ /*
+ * SVM guests can use the SWIOTLB wherever it is in memory,
+ * even if not DMA-able.
+ */
+ swiotlb_init_anywhere(0, is_secure_guest());
#endif

high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
diff --git a/include/linux/swiotlb.h b/include/linux/swiotlb.h
index 046bb94bd4d6..433f3dbb35b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/swiotlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/swiotlb.h
@@ -29,7 +29,13 @@ enum swiotlb_force {
*/
#define IO_TLB_SHIFT 11

-extern void swiotlb_init(int verbose);
+void __init swiotlb_init_anywhere(int verbose, bool allocate_anywhere);
+
+static inline void swiotlb_init(int verbose)
+{
+ swiotlb_init_anywhere(verbose, false);
+}
+
int swiotlb_init_with_tbl(char *tlb, unsigned long nslabs, int verbose);
extern unsigned long swiotlb_nr_tbl(void);
unsigned long swiotlb_size_or_default(void);
diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
index c19379fabd20..27070aa59e34 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ int __init swiotlb_init_with_tbl(char *tlb, unsigned long nslabs, int verbose)
* structures for the software IO TLB used to implement the DMA API.
*/
void __init
-swiotlb_init(int verbose)
+swiotlb_init_anywhere(int verbose, bool allocate_anywhere)
{
size_t default_size = IO_TLB_DEFAULT_SIZE;
unsigned char *vstart;
@@ -257,8 +257,12 @@ swiotlb_init(int verbose)

bytes = io_tlb_nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT;

- /* Get IO TLB memory from the low pages */
- vstart = memblock_alloc_low(PAGE_ALIGN(bytes), PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (allocate_anywhere)
+ vstart = memblock_alloc(PAGE_ALIGN(bytes), PAGE_SIZE);
+ else
+ /* Get IO TLB memory from the low pages */
+ vstart = memblock_alloc_low(PAGE_ALIGN(bytes), PAGE_SIZE);
+
if (vstart && !swiotlb_init_with_tbl(vstart, io_tlb_nslabs, verbose))
return;