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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Revert "vring: Force use of DMA API for ARM-based systems with legacy devices"
On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 05:49:11AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This reverts commit c7070619f3408d9a0dffbed9149e6f00479cf43b.
>
> This has been shown to regress on some ARM systems:
>
> by forcing on DMA API usage for ARM systems, we have inadvertently
> kicked open a hornets' nest in terms of cache-coherency. Namely that
> unless the virtio device is explicitly described as capable of coherent
> DMA by firmware, the DMA APIs on ARM and other DT-based platforms will
> assume it is non-coherent. This turns out to cause a big problem for the
> likes of QEMU and kvmtool, which generate virtio-mmio devices in their
> guest DTs but neglect to add the often-overlooked "dma-coherent"
> property; as a result, we end up with the guest making non-cacheable
> accesses to the vring, the host doing so cacheably, both talking past
> each other and things going horribly wrong.
>
> We are working on a safer work-around.
>
> Fixes: c7070619f340 ("vring: Force use of DMA API for ARM-based systems with legacy devices")
> Reported-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> 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>
> ---
>
> I'll merge this for 4.10. Let's fix it properly for 4.11.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Will

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