POWER secure guests (i.e., guests which use the Protected Execution Facility) need to use SWIOTLB to be able to do I/O with the hypervisor, but they don't need the SWIOTLB memory to be in low addresses since the hypervisor doesn't have any addressing limitation. This solves a SWIOTLB initialization problem we are seeing in secure guests with 128 GB of RAM: they are configured with 4 GB of crashkernel reserved memory, which leaves no space for SWIOTLB in low addresses. To do this, we use mostly the same code as swiotlb_init(), but allocate the buffer using memblock_alloc() instead of memblock_alloc_low(). Fixes: 2efbc58f157a ("powerpc/pseries/svm: Force SWIOTLB for secure guests") Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818221126.391073-1-bauerman@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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