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Will Deacon c7070619f3 vring: Force use of DMA API for ARM-based systems with legacy devices
Booting Linux on an ARM fastmodel containing an SMMU emulation results
in an unexpected I/O page fault from the legacy virtio-blk PCI device:

[    1.211721] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: event 0x10 received:
[    1.211800] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x00000000fffff010
[    1.211880] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x0000020800000000
[    1.211959] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x00000008fa081002
[    1.212075] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x0000000000000000
[    1.212155] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu: event 0x10 received:
[    1.212234] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x00000000fffff010
[    1.212314] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x0000020800000000
[    1.212394] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x00000008fa081000
[    1.212471] arm-smmu-v3 2b400000.smmu:	0x0000000000000000

<system hangs failing to read partition table>

This is because the legacy virtio-blk device is behind an SMMU, so we
have consequently swizzled its DMA ops and configured the SMMU to
translate accesses. This then requires the vring code to use the DMA API
to establish translations, otherwise all transactions will result in
fatal faults and termination.

Given that ARM-based systems only see an SMMU if one is really present
(the topology is all described by firmware tables such as device-tree or
IORT), then we can safely use the DMA API for all legacy virtio devices.
Modern devices can advertise the prescense of an IOMMU using the
VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM feature flag.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 876945dbf6 ("arm64: Hook up IOMMU dma_ops")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.