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Commit 251e90e7 authored by Juergen Gross's avatar Juergen Gross
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xen: don't require virtio with grants for non-PV guests

Commit fa1f5742 ("xen/virtio: Enable restricted memory access using
Xen grant mappings") introduced a new requirement for using virtio
devices: the backend now needs to support the VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM
feature.

This is an undue requirement for non-PV guests, as those can be operated
with existing backends without any problem, as long as those backends
are running in dom0.

Per default allow virtio devices without grant support for non-PV
guests.

On Arm require VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM for devices having been listed
in the device tree to use grants.

Add a new config item to always force use of grants for virtio.

Fixes: fa1f5742

 ("xen/virtio: Enable restricted memory access using Xen grant mappings")
Reported-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> # Arm64 guest using Xen
Reviewed-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622063838.8854-4-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
parent a870544c
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