Re: [PATCH V4 3/5] hyperv/IOMMU: Enable swiotlb bounce buffer for Isolation VM

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 05.12.21 09:18, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> hyperv Isolation VM requires bounce buffer support to copy
> data from/to encrypted memory and so enable swiotlb force
> mode to use swiotlb bounce buffer for DMA transaction.
>
> In Isolation VM with AMD SEV, the bounce buffer needs to be
> accessed via extra address space which is above shared_gpa_boundary
> (E.G 39 bit address line) reported by Hyper-V CPUID ISOLATION_CONFIG.
> The access physical address will be original physical address +
> shared_gpa_boundary. The shared_gpa_boundary in the AMD SEV SNP
> spec is called virtual top of memory(vTOM). Memory addresses below
> vTOM are automatically treated as private while memory above
> vTOM is treated as shared.
>
> Hyper-V initalizes swiotlb bounce buffer and default swiotlb
> needs to be disabled. pci_swiotlb_detect_override() and
> pci_swiotlb_detect_4gb() enable the default one. To override
> the setting, hyperv_swiotlb_detect() needs to run before
> these detect functions which depends on the pci_xen_swiotlb_
> init(). Make pci_xen_swiotlb_init() depends on the hyperv_swiotlb
> _detect() to keep the order.
Why? Does Hyper-V plan to support Xen PV guests? If not, I don't see
the need for adding this change.


Juergen

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