Thread (55 messages) 55 messages, 7 authors, 2021-09-27

Re: [PATCH v4 11/15] pci: Add pci_iomap_shared{,_range}

From: "Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2021-08-24 00:31:03
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On 8/23/21 4:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
quoted
Add a new variant of pci_iomap for mapping all PCI resources
of a devices as shared memory with a hypervisor in a confidential
guest.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen<redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
I'm a bit puzzled by this part. So why should the guest*not*  map
pci memory as shared? And if the answer is never (as it seems to be)
then why not just make regular pci_iomap DTRT?
It is in the context of confidential guest (where VMM is un-trusted). So
we don't want to make all PCI resource as shared. It should be allowed
only for hardened drivers/devices.

-- 
Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer
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