Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: swiotlb: Implement map_resource callback

[John Ernberg <john.ernberg@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

On 5/9/25 1:14 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2025, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 04:09:15PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>>> This mapping is not for a RAM backed address. In the eDMA case for the
>>>> iMX8QXP the `phys` coming in here is the address of a register.
>>>
>>> Ok, this information is important :-)
>>>
>>> I am not certain whether the map_resource interface can only be called
>>> for MMIO addresses or if it can also be called for RAM-backed addresses
>>> with a size > PAGE_SIZE. In the latter case, we could run into the issue
>>> I was describing.
>>
>> map_resource is intended for MMIO regions, although those could be >
>> PAGE_SIZE.  It must not be called on RAM.
> 
> In that case, John, you can just use dma_direct_map_resource().
> 
> That's because MMIO regions:
> - are 1:1 mapped on ARM
> - are 1:1 mapped on x86 for PV Dom0
> - might not be 1:1 mapped on x86 for PVH Dom0, but in this case we rely
>    on the IOMMU to do address translation
> 
> In none of these cases xen_phys_to_dma would give us any interesting
> results.  It would be the same as calling phys_to_dma.

Thank you for explaining. I will spin a V2 incorporating this.
Thanks! // John Ernberg