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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk on 22 Jun 2010 15:50
These nineteen patches lay the groundwork for Xen Paravirtualized (PV)
domains to access PCI pass-through devices. These patches utilize the
SWIOTLB library modifications (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/4/272).

The end user of this is the Xen PCI frontend and Xen PCI [1] which
require a DMA API "backend" that understands Xen's MMU. This allows the
PV domains to use PCI devices.

This patch-set is split in two groups. The first alter the Xen components,
while the second introduces the SWIOTLB-Xen.

The Xen components patches consist of:

[PATCH 01/19] xen: use _PAGE_IOMAP in ioremap to do machine mappings
[PATCH 02/19] xen: Allow unprivileged Xen domains to create iomap pages
[PATCH 03/19] xen: Rename the balloon lock
[PATCH 04/19] xen: Add xen_create_contiguous_region

which alter the Xen MMU, which by default utilizes a layer of indirection
wherein the PFN is translated to the Machine Frame Number (MFN) and vice-versa.
This is required to "fool" the guest in thinking its memory starts at PFN 0 and
goes up to the available amount. While in the background, PFN 0 might as well be
MFN 1048576 (4GB).

For PCI/DMA API calls (ioremap, pci_map_page, etc) having a PFN != MFN is
not too good, so two new mechanisms are introduced:
a). For PTEs which manipulate the PCI/DMA pages the PFN == MFN. This is done
via utilizing the _PAGE_IOMAP flag to distinguish the PTE as an IO type.
b). Allow a mechanism to "swizzle" the MFN's under a PFN to be under a certain
bus width (say 32). This allows us to provide a mechanism for the
SWIOTLB Xen to allocate memory for its pool that will be guaranteed to be
under the 4GB mark.

The SWIOTLB-Xen adds a library that is only used if the machine is detected
to be running under Xen. It utilizes the SWIOTLB library bookkeeping functions
(swiotlb_tbl_*) and only deals with the virtual to [physical, bus] (and vice-versa)
address translations.

The diffstat:

arch/x86/include/asm/xen/page.h | 8 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/swiotlb-xen.h | 14 +
arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 7 +-
arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 4 +
arch/x86/xen/Makefile | 1 +
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 4 +
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 291 ++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb-xen.c | 58 ++++
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 15 +-
include/linux/swiotlb-xen.h | 65 ++++
include/xen/interface/memory.h | 50 +++
include/xen/xen-ops.h | 6 +
lib/Makefile | 1 +
lib/swiotlb-xen.c | 515 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
14 files changed, 1018 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)


[1]: The Xen PCI and Xen PCI fronted patches, which have not yet been
posted are available at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
under the branch devel/xen-pcifront-0.2. A merge of all required branches
is under 'devel/merge.2.6.35-rc3'. Or 'devel/merge.2.6.34'. I will post them quite soon.
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