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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] powerpc/pseries/svm: Allocate SWIOTLB buffer anywhere in memory
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:11:26PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> POWER secure guests (i.e., guests which use the Protection Execution
> Facility) need to use SWIOTLB to be able to do I/O with the hypervisor, but
> they don't need the SWIOTLB memory to be in low addresses since the
> hypervisor doesn't have any addressing limitation.
>
> This solves a SWIOTLB initialization problem we are seeing in secure guests
> with 128 GB of RAM: they are configured with 4 GB of crashkernel reserved
> memory, which leaves no space for SWIOTLB in low addresses.
>
> To do this, we use mostly the same code as swiotlb_init(), but allocate the
> buffer using memblock_alloc() instead of memblock_alloc_low().
>
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>

Looks fine to me (except for the pointlessly long comment lines, but I've
been told that's the powerpc way).

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