Re: [PATCH 4/5] virtio: Introduce virtio_max_dma_size()

From: Lendacky, Thomas
Date: Wed Jan 30 2019 - 10:10:47 EST


On 1/29/19 2:43 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> This function returns the maximum segment size for a single
> dma transaction of a virtio device. The possible limit comes
> from the SWIOTLB implementation in the Linux kernel, that
> has an upper limit of (currently) 256kb of contiguous
> memory it can map. Other DMA-API implementations might also
> have limits.
>
> Use the new dma_max_mapping_size() function to determine the
> maximum mapping size when DMA-API is in use for virtio.
>
> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 10 ++++++++++
> include/linux/virtio.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> index cd7e755484e3..9ca3fe6af9fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> @@ -266,6 +266,16 @@ static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> return false;
> }
>
> +size_t virtio_max_dma_size(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> +{
> + size_t max_segment_size = SIZE_MAX;
> +
> + if (vring_use_dma_api(vdev))
> + max_segment_size = dma_max_mapping_size(&vdev->dev);
> +
> + return max_segment_size;
> +}

When I build with these patches and with the virtio devices as modules I
get a build failure. Looks like this needs an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

Thanks,
Tom

> +
> static void *vring_alloc_queue(struct virtio_device *vdev, size_t size,
> dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
> {
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
> index fa1b5da2804e..673fe3ef3607 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
> @@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ int virtio_device_freeze(struct virtio_device *dev);
> int virtio_device_restore(struct virtio_device *dev);
> #endif
>
> +size_t virtio_max_dma_size(struct virtio_device *vdev);
> +
> #define virtio_device_for_each_vq(vdev, vq) \
> list_for_each_entry(vq, &vdev->vqs, list)
>
>