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From: Jianxiong Gao <jxgao@google.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.10 0/8] preserve DMA offsets when using swiotlb
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:28:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMGD6P2gUpUuX5cdPi1Q0nqRFmsBPctUR+hBt+DnPK+H4jHiiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YILkSsR4ejv5CraF@kroah.com>

> How?  Anything that installed 5.10 when it was released never had this
> working, they had to move to 5.12 to get that to work.

I wasn't clear. The bug is not specific to SEV virtualization. We
simply encountered it while working on SEV virtualization. This is a
pre-existing bug.

Briefly, the NVMe spec expects a page offset to be retained from the
memory address space to the IO address space.

Before these patches, the SWIOTLB truncates any page offset.

Thus, all NVMe + SWIOTLB systems are broken due to this bug without
these patches.

I searched online and found what appeared to be a very similar bug
from a few years ago [1]. Ultimately, it was fixed in the device
firmware. However, it began with NVMe + SWIOTLB resulting in similar
issues to what we observed without these patches.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402533
-- 
Jianxiong Gao

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-23 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-05 21:02 [PATCH v5.10 0/8] preserve DMA offsets when using swiotlb Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 1/8] driver core: add a min_align_mask field to struct device_dma_parameters Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-07 12:50   ` Greg KH
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 2/8] swiotlb: factor out an io_tlb_offset helper Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 3/8] swiotlb: factor out a nr_slots helper Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 4/8] swiotlb: clean up swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 5/8] swiotlb: refactor swiotlb_tbl_map_single Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 6/8] swiotlb: don't modify orig_addr in swiotlb_tbl_sync_single Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 7/8] swiotlb: respect min_align_mask Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-05 21:02 ` [PATCH v5.10 8/8] nvme-pci: set min_align_mask Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-07 12:51 ` [PATCH v5.10 0/8] preserve DMA offsets when using swiotlb Greg KH
2021-04-20 23:38   ` Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-23 15:14     ` Greg KH
2021-04-23 17:28       ` Jianxiong Gao [this message]
2021-04-23 22:10         ` Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-23 22:33           ` Marc Orr
2021-04-24 14:43         ` Greg KH
2021-04-26 18:00           ` Jianxiong Gao
2021-04-28 16:18             ` Sasha Levin

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