[PATCH v11 09/12] swiotlb: Add restricted DMA alloc/free support

Claire Chang tientzu at chromium.org
Wed Jun 16 15:10:02 AEST 2021


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:59 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:04:16PM +0800, Claire Chang wrote:
> > Just noticed that after propagating swiotlb_force setting into
> > io_tlb_default_mem->force, the memory allocation behavior for
> > swiotlb_force will change (i.e. always skipping arch_dma_alloc and
> > dma_direct_alloc_from_pool).
>
> Yes, I think we need to split a "use_for_alloc" flag from the force flag.

How about splitting is_dev_swiotlb_force into is_swiotlb_force_bounce
(io_tlb_mem->force_bounce) and is_swiotlb_force_alloc
(io_tlb_mem->force_alloc)?


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