Re: [Xen-devel] Xen ARM community call - meeting minutes and date for the next one

[Pooya.Keshavarzi <Pooya.Keshavarzi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/12/2017 07:50 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Pooya.Keshavarzi wrote:
>>
>> Firstly sorry for the late reply on this.
>>
>> Regarding the problem with swiotlb-xen here are some more details:
>>
>> If we limit Dom0's memory such that only low-memory (up to 32-bit 
>> addressable memory) is available to Dom0, then swiotlb-xen does not have to 
>> use bounce buffers and the devices (e.g. USB, ethernet) would work.
>>
>> But when there is some high memory also available to Dom0, the followings 
>> happen:
>>  - If the the device address happens to be in the device's DMA window (see 
>> xen_swiotlb_map_page()), then the device would work.
>>  - Otherwise if it has to allocate and map a bounce buffer, then the device 
>> would not work.
> 
> From what you wrote it looks like the xen_swiotlb_map_page path: 
> 
>       if (dma_capable(dev, dev_addr, size) &&
>           !range_straddles_page_boundary(phys, size) &&
>               !xen_arch_need_swiotlb(dev, phys, dev_addr) &&
>               !swiotlb_force) {
>               /* we are not interested in the dma_addr returned by
>                * xen_dma_map_page, only in the potential cache flushes 
> executed
>                * by the function. */
>               xen_dma_map_page(dev, page, dev_addr, offset, size, dir, attrs);
>               return dev_addr;
>       }
> 
> works, but the other does not. Does it match your understanding? Have
> you done any digging to find the reason why the bounce buffer code path
> is broken on your platform?

Yes, The above path works but the other one doesn't.
I did some digging but failed to find out what's the problem. The returned 
address from swiotlb_tbl_map_single() is within the memory range allocated 
earlier for Xen software IO TLB and is dma capable, so it seem to be OK.

What's your suggestion for further digging?

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel