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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
Cc: "Xuan Zhuo" <xuanzhuo@linux•alibaba.com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, "Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel•org>,
	"Magnus Karlsson" <magnus.karlsson@intel•com>,
	"Maciej Fijalkowski" <maciej.fijalkowski@intel•com>,
	"Jonathan Lemon" <jonathan.lemon@gmail•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google•com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel•org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel•org>,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <hawk@kernel•org>,
	"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail•com>,
	bpf@vger•kernel.org, virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	"Guenter Roeck" <linux@roeck-us•net>,
	"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat•com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] xsk: introduce xsk_dma_cbs
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:42:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230423161828-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZETUAMqKc8iLhTk3@kroah.com>

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 08:45:20AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 02:25:45PM +0800, Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> > The purpose of this patch is to allow driver pass the own dma callbacks
> > to xsk.
> > 
> > This is to cope with the scene of virtio-net. If virtio does not have
> > VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM, then virtio cannot use DMA API. In this case,
> > xsk cannot use DMA API directly to achieve DMA address. Based on this
> > scene, we must let xsk support driver to use the driver's dma callbacks.
> 
> Why does virtio need to use dma?  That seems to go against the overall
> goal of virtio's new security restrictions that are being proposed
> (where they do NOT want it to use dma as it is not secure).

Yes, they exactly use dma, specifically dma into bounce buffer.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-23 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-23  6:25 [PATCH net-next v1] xsk: introduce xsk_dma_cbs Xuan Zhuo
2023-04-23  6:45 ` Greg KH
2023-04-23  6:58   ` Xuan Zhuo
2023-04-23  8:39     ` Greg KH
2023-04-23  9:13       ` Xuan Zhuo
2023-04-23 20:42   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]

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