On 06.01.26 23:47, Teddy Astie wrote:
Le 06/01/2026 à 20:06, Jürgen Groß a écrit :
On 06.01.26 18:36, Teddy Astie wrote:
Dom0 inherit devices from the machine and is usually in PV mode.
If we are running in a virtual that has virtio devices, these devices
would be considered as using grants with Dom0 as backend, while being
the said Dom0 itself, while we want to use these devices like regular
PCI devices.

Fix this by preventing grant-dma-ops from being used when running as Dom0
(initial domain). We still keep the device-tree logic as-is.

Signed-off-by: Teddy Astie <[email protected]>
Fixes: 61367688f1fb0 ("xen/virtio: enable grant based virtio on x86")
---
CC: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
CC: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <[email protected]>
CC: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>

   drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c | 3 ++-
   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c b/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
index 14077d23f2a1..c2603e700178 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
@@ -366,7 +366,8 @@ static int xen_grant_init_backend_domid(struct
device *dev,
       if (np) {
           ret = xen_dt_grant_init_backend_domid(dev, np, backend_domid);
           of_node_put(np);
-    } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_XEN_VIRTIO_FORCE_GRANT) ||
xen_pv_domain()) {
+    } else if (!xen_initial_domain() &&
+           (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_XEN_VIRTIO_FORCE_GRANT) ||
xen_pv_domain())) {
           dev_info(dev, "Using dom0 as backend\n");
           *backend_domid = 0;
           ret = 0;

Please make this controllable, e.g. via a boot parameter.

It is completely valid to have a virtio device in dom0 with the backend in
a domU. You'll need grants in this case.

Due to
  > *backend_domid = 0

Dom0 would always be the backend, unless we introduce a new boot
parameter to select which domain will be the backend.

Ah, right. Okay, for now this is correct, so you can have my

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>

In future things might change, though.

There is also another issue, as in the xen_initial_domain() case, all
PCI devices come from hardware. So no virtio-pci device can't come from
another domain as Linux would pick up pcifront devices only if we are
not a Dom0 (!xen_initial_domain()).

I think virtio devices should only be handled via pcifront in case they
are NOT implemented by a Xen backend domain.


Juergen

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