Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma-mapping: force unencryped devices are always addressing limited

[hch@xxxxxx]

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.