On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 08:02:16AM +0000, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: > > We have a hard time handling that in generic code. Do we have any > > good use case for SWIOTLB_FORCE not that we have force_dma_unencrypted? > > I'd love to be able to get rid of it.. > > > IIRC the justification for it is debugging. Drivers that don't do > syncing correctly or have incorrect assumptions of initialization of DMA > memory will not work properly when SWIOTLB is forced. We recently found > a vmw_pvscsi device flaw that way...
Ok. I guess debugging is reasonable. Although that means I need to repsin this quite a bit as I now need a callout to dma_direct. I'll respin it in the next days. _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
