Re: [PATCH V3 11/13] HV/IOMMU: Enable swiotlb bounce buffer for Isolation VM

From: hch@xxxxxx
Date: Fri Aug 20 2021 - 00:13:50 EST


On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 06:11:30PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> This function is manipulating page tables in the guest VM. It is not involved
> in communicating with Hyper-V, or passing PFNs to Hyper-V. The pfn array
> contains guest PFNs, not Hyper-V PFNs. So it should use PAGE_SIZE
> instead of HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, and similarly PAGE_SHIFT and virt_to_pfn().
> If this code were ever to run on ARM64 in the future with PAGE_SIZE other
> than 4 Kbytes, the use of PAGE_SIZE is correct choice.

Yes. I just stumled over this yesterday. I think we can actually use a
nicer helper ased around vmap_range() to simplify this exactly because it
always uses the host page size. I hope I can draft up a RFC today.