vring: Force use of DMA API for ARM-based systems with legacy devices
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:33:32 +0000 (10:33 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:33:05 +0000 (08:33 +0100)
commit13e39d5930ec5a4e0711a6d88bcea84bfd13d4bb
tree989c05d5d42bef542cf0d8828d91dbcf5e1772ab
parent96e5cec10e7a75c931f8993633b3a5cedc99144e
vring: Force use of DMA API for ARM-based systems with legacy devices

commit c7070619f3408d9a0dffbed9149e6f00479cf43b upstream.

Booting Linux on an ARM fastmodel containing an SMMU emulation results
in an unexpected I/O page fault from the legacy virtio-blk PCI device:

[    1.211721] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: event 0x10 received:
[    1.211800] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x00000000fffff010
[    1.211880] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x0000020800000000
[    1.211959] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x00000008fa081002
[    1.212075] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x0000000000000000
[    1.212155] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: event 0x10 received:
[    1.212234] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x00000000fffff010
[    1.212314] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x0000020800000000
[    1.212394] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x00000008fa081000
[    1.212471] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: 0x0000000000000000

<system hangs failing to read partition table>

This is because the legacy virtio-blk device is behind an SMMU, so we
have consequently swizzled its DMA ops and configured the SMMU to
translate accesses. This then requires the vring code to use the DMA API
to establish translations, otherwise all transactions will result in
fatal faults and termination.

Given that ARM-based systems only see an SMMU if one is really present
(the topology is all described by firmware tables such as device-tree or
IORT), then we can safely use the DMA API for all legacy virtio devices.
Modern devices can advertise the prescense of an IOMMU using the
VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM feature flag.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Fixes: 876945dbf649 ("arm64: Hook up IOMMU dma_ops")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c