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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] xen: swiotlb support for Xen dom0
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Ingo,
>>
>> This branch adds the swiotlb hooks for Xen dom0. We use swiotlb
>> to handle various device drivers which assume that multipage DMA
>> transfers which are contigious in kernel memory are also
>> contigious in machine memory (mostly lower-performance devices, as
>> high-performance ones already do a good job of scatter-gather).
>>
>> Following Fujita's suggestion, these changes remove a lot of the
>> placeholder stubs in arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c and moves them
>> into the Xen-specific arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c. (It still
>> relies on overriding the weak functions defined in lib/swiotlb.c.)
>>
>> The following changes since commit 2af252ab26150b4411889c9eaf1af4c5bf03de78:
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
>> xen: checkpatch cleanups
>>
>
> Would be nice to have a pull request for this with Fujita-san's acks
> embedded in the commits, and with a tree based against tip:x86/xen.
>

I will regenerate the branch with the acks (and Joerg made some comments
which I'll address too).

J


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