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      swiotlb-xen: SWIOTLB library for Xen PV guest with PCI passthrough. · b097186f
      Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 提交于
      This patchset:
      
      PV guests under Xen are running in an non-contiguous memory architecture.
      
      When PCI pass-through is utilized, this necessitates an IOMMU for
      translating bus (DMA) to virtual and vice-versa and also providing a
      mechanism to have contiguous pages for device drivers operations (say DMA
      operations).
      
      Specifically, under Xen the Linux idea of pages is an illusion. It
      assumes that pages start at zero and go up to the available memory. To
      help with that, the Linux Xen MMU provides a lookup mechanism to
      translate the page frame numbers (PFN) to machine frame numbers (MFN)
      and vice-versa. The MFN are the "real" frame numbers. Furthermore
      memory is not contiguous. Xen hypervisor stitches memory for guests
      from different pools, which means there is no guarantee that PFN==MFN
      and PFN+1==MFN+1. Lastly with Xen 4.0, pages (in debug mode) are
      allocated in descending order (high to low), meaning the guest might
      never get any MFN's under the 4GB mark.
      Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      Acked-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
      Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
      Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
      b097186f