Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:11:26PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: >> POWER secure guests (i.e., guests which use the Protection 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(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauer...@linux.ibm.com> > > Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Thanks! -- Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center
