On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 02:12:24PM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:15:42 -0500
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Cong Wang reported dma debug warnings with virtio-vsock
> > and proposed a patch, see:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> > 
> > however, the issue is more widespread.
> > This is an attempt to fix it systematically.
> > Note: i2c and gio might also be affected, I am still looking
> > into it. Help from maintainers welcome.
> > 
> > Early RFC, compile tested only. Sending for early feedback/flames.
> > Cursor/claude used liberally mostly for refactoring, and english.
> > 
> > DMA maintainers, could you please confirm the DMA core changes
> > are ok with you?
> 
> Before anyone else runs into the same issue as I did: This patch series
> does not apply cleanly unless you first apply commit b148e85c918a
> ("virtio_ring: switch to use vring_virtqueue for virtqueue_add
> variants") from the mst/vhost/vhost branch.

Oh right sorry I forgot to mention it.  It's this one:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

one can just do

b4 shazam [email protected]


> But if you go to the trouble of adding the mst/vhost remote, then the
> above-mentioned branch also contains this patch series, and it's
> probably the best place to find the patched code...
> 
> Now, let me set out for review.
> 
> Petr T
> 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > Michael S. Tsirkin (13):
> >   dma-mapping: add __dma_from_device_align_begin/end
> >   docs: dma-api: document __dma_align_begin/end
> >   dma-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN
> >   docs: dma-api: document DMA_ATTR_CPU_CACHE_CLEAN
> >   dma-debug: track cache clean flag in entries
> >   virtio: add virtqueue_add_inbuf_cache_clean API
> >   vsock/virtio: fix DMA alignment for event_list
> >   vsock/virtio: use virtqueue_add_inbuf_cache_clean for events
> >   virtio_input: fix DMA alignment for evts
> >   virtio_scsi: fix DMA cacheline issues for events
> >   virtio-rng: fix DMA alignment for data buffer
> >   virtio_input: use virtqueue_add_inbuf_cache_clean for events
> >   vsock/virtio: reorder fields to reduce struct padding
> > 
> >  Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst  | 42 +++++++++++++
> >  Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst |  9 +++
> >  drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c       |  2 +
> >  drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c                | 18 ++++--
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_input.c             |  5 +-
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c              | 72 +++++++++++++++++------
> >  include/linux/dma-mapping.h               | 17 ++++++
> >  include/linux/virtio.h                    |  5 ++
> >  kernel/dma/debug.c                        | 26 ++++++--
> >  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c          |  8 ++-
> >  10 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> > 


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