linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] iommu/vt-d: Global PASID name space

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:38:21 +0800
From:   Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     ashok.raj@...el.com, sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com,
        jacob.jun.pan@...el.com, kevin.tian@...el.com, yi.l.liu@...el.com,
        yi.y.sun@...el.com, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] iommu/vt-d: Global PASID name space

Hi Joerg,

A gentle ping. :-)

Any comments on this patch set?

Best regards,
Lu Baolu

On 03/15/2018 10:38 AM, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series is trying to change the scope of PASID management
> used in Intel IOMMU driver from per IOMMU to driver global. This is
> required for some cases where current per-IOMMU PASID name space
> doesn't work. For an example, one application (associated with one
> PASID) might talk to two physical devices simultaneously where two
> devices could reside behind two different IOMMU units.
>
> Best regards,
> Lu Baolu
>
> Lu Baolu (3):
>   iommu/vt-d: Global PASID name space
>   iommu/vt-d: Decouple idr bond pointer from svm
>   iommu/vt-d: Use global PASID for SVM usage
>
>  drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c   | 34 +++++++++++++-----------
>  include/linux/intel-iommu.h |  7 ++++-
>  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>