[Xen-devel] Does xc_map_foreign_pages() update IOMMU tables?

[Joanna Rutkowska <joanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does the xc_map_foreign_pages() update also the IOMMU/VT-d tables so
that the mapped pages belong also to Dom0 (from the IOMMU point of view)?

It seems like it does indeed. We use this function in Qubes GUI
virtualization to map composition buffers from DomUs into Dom0. Then we
use XShmPutImage() in Dom0 to display them. We've been told [1] that
XShmPutImage() often uses DMA to copy pages to the video memory,
especially in case of accelerated drivers. And we verified that our GUI
works fine on VT-d systems e.g. with Intel drivers with h/w acceleration
enabled and with iommu=pv enabled. This suggests that
xc_map_foreign_pages() indeed must be adding mapped pages to the IOMMU
tables for Dom0, as otherwise XShmPutImage() would not be able to
DMA-read the contents of those pages, that originally belonged to some
other DomUs.

Am I missing something? If not, can somebody point me to the actual code
in Xen which does this update?

Thanks a lot!
joanna.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/qubes-devel/msg/9d23cd9c26127ed7

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