linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] x86: Don't let pgprot_modify() change the page encryption bit

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Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 18:40:59 +0200
From:   Thomas Hellström (VMware) 
        <thomas_os@...pmail.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, pv-drivers@...are.com,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] x86: Don't let pgprot_modify() change the page
 encryption bit

On 9/5/19 5:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 05:21:24PM +0200, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
>> On 9/5/19 4:15 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the second batch of patches!  These look much improved on all
>>> fronts.
>> Yes, although the TTM functionality isn't in yet. Hopefully we won't have to
>> bother you with those though, since this assumes TTM will be using the dma
>> API.
> Please take a look at dma_mmap_prepare and dma_mmap_fault in this
> branch:
>
> 	http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/dma-mmap-improvements
>
> they should allow to fault dma api pages in the page fault handler.  But
> this is totally hot off the press and not actually tested for the last
> few patches.  Note that I've also included your two patches from this
> series to handle SEV.

Thanks, Christoph.

I'll get to this tomorrow.

/Thomas