Re: [PATCH 1/9] xen: make sure swiotlb allocation is physicallycontigious

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Sun May 10 2009 - 23:42:55 EST


On Thu, 7 May 2009 17:17:14 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: make swiotlb allocation suitable for Xen
>
> When allocating the swiotlb buffer under Xen, make sure the memory is
> physically contiguous so that its really suitable for DMA.
>
> Do this by allocating the memory as usual, but then call a Xen
> function to rearrange the underlying pages to be physically
> contiguous.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c | 10 ----------
> arch/x86/xen/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/pci/xen-iommu.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> include/xen/swiotlb.h | 6 ++++++
> 5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c
> create mode 100644 include/xen/swiotlb.h

Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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