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* [PATCH] Xen-SWIOTLB fixes (v4) for v3.7
@ 2012-09-10 19:45 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
  2012-09-10 19:45 ` [PATCH 01/10] xen/swiotlb: Simplify the logic Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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  0 siblings, 12 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2012-09-10 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, xen-devel, stefano.stabellini

The original problem was:
<begin>
"if one boots a PV 64-bit guests with more than 4GB, the SWIOTLB [Xen]
gets turned on - and 64MB of precious low-memory gets used." was totally
bogus. The SWIOTLB that gets turned on is the *native* one - which does
not exhaust any low-memory of the host. But it does eat up perfectly
fine 64MB of the guest and never gets used.

So this patchset has some things I wanted to do for some time:
 [PATCH 01/10] xen/swiotlb: Simplify the logic.

Just so that next time I am not confused.

 [PATCH 02/10] xen/swiotlb: With more than 4GB on 64-bit, disable the

and don't turn the *native* SWIOTLB on PV guests and waste those 64MB.
<end>


The rest are  exciting new patches - basically I want to emulate what
IA64 does which is to turn on the SWIOTLB late in the bootup cycle.
This means not using the alloc_bootmem and having a "late" variant
to initialize SWIOTLB. There is some surgery in the SWIOTLB library:
 [PATCH 03/10] swiotlb: add the late swiotlb initialization function

to allow it to use an io_tlb passed in. Note: I hadn't tested this
on IA64 and that is something I need to do.

And then the implementation in the Xen-SWIOTLB to use it:
 [PATCH 06/10] xen/swiotlb: Use the swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl to
along with Xen PCI frontend to utilize it.
 [PATCH 07/10] xen/pcifront: Use Xen-SWIOTLB when initting if

The end result is that a PV guest can now dynamically(*) deal with
PCI passthrough cards. I say "dynamically" b/c if one boots a PV guest
with more than 3GB without using 'e820_hole' (or is it called 'e820_host'
now?) the PCI subsystem won't be able to squeeze the BARs as they
are RAM occupied. The workaround is to boot with 'e820_hole' or some
new work where we manipulate at boot time the E820 to leave a nice
big 1GB hole under 4G - and with all the work on the P2M tree that
should be fairly easy actually.

Note: If one uses 'iommu=soft' on the Linux command line, the Xen-SWIOTLB
still gets turned on.

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2012-09-10 19:45 [PATCH] Xen-SWIOTLB fixes (v4) for v3.7 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-10 19:45 ` [PATCH 01/10] xen/swiotlb: Simplify the logic Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-10 19:45 ` [PATCH 02/10] xen/swiotlb: With more than 4GB on 64-bit, disable the native SWIOTLB Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 03/10] swiotlb: add the late swiotlb initialization function with iotlb memory Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 04/10] xen/swiotlb: Move the nr_tbl determination in its own function Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-14 16:08   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 05/10] xen/swiotlb: Move the error strings to " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-14 16:00   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 06/10] xen/swiotlb: Use the swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl to init Xen-SWIOTLB late when PV PCI is used Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-14 16:26   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 07/10] xen/pcifront: Use Xen-SWIOTLB when initting if required Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 08/10] xen/swiotlb: Remove functions not needed anymore Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-14 16:06   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-14 17:06     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-17 10:52       ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 09/10] xen/swiotlb: Fix compile warnings when using plain integer instead of NULL pointer Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-14 16:11   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-10 19:46 ` [PATCH 10/10] xen/swiotlb: Depending on after_bootmem is not correct Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-14 16:10   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-14 17:09     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-17 14:23     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-17 14:25       ` Is: [PATCH 11/10] xen/swiotlb: For early initialization, return zero on success. Was: " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-17 14:53         ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-17 14:52       ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-09-17 17:02         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
     [not found] ` <m2n.s.1TBAAE-152299@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
2012-09-13 15:53   ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 09/10] xen/swiotlb: Fix compile warnings when using plain integer instead of NULL pointer Ian Jackson
2012-09-13 15:56     ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-13 16:00       ` Ian Jackson
2012-09-22 13:28 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Xen-SWIOTLB fixes (v4) for v3.7 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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