On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:59:32PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> From: Anshuman Khandual <khand...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> SWIOTLB checks range of incoming CPU addresses to be bounced and see if the
> device can access it through it's DMA window without requiring bouncing. In
> such cases it just chooses to skip bouncing. But for cases like secure
> guests on powerpc platform all addresses need to be bounced into the shared
> pool of memory because the host cannot access it otherwise. Hence the need
> to do the bouncing is not related to device's DMA window. Hence force the
> use of bouncing by setting the swiotlb_force variable on secure guests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khand...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauer...@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/svm.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/svm.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/svm.c
> index 1af5caa955f5..f0576ad65cd0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/svm.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ static int __init init_svm(void)
>               return 0;
>  
>       ppc_swiotlb_enable = 1;
> +     swiotlb_force = SWIOTLB_FORCE;
>       swiotlb_update_mem_attributes();

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