linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 26/34] iommu/amd: Allow the AMD IOMMU to work with memory encryption

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Message-ID: <20170619171820.tq4htttamb52pyx5@pd.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:18:20 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>
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        Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
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        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 26/34] iommu/amd: Allow the AMD IOMMU to work with
 memory encryption

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:33:41AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Changing the signature back reverts to the original way, so this can be
> looked at separate from this patchset then.

Right, the patch which added the volatile thing was this one:

  4bf5beef578e ("iommu/amd: Don't put completion-wait semaphore on stack")

and the commit message doesn't say why the thing needs to be volatile at
all.

Joerg?

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    Boris.

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