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Re: [PATCH] SUPPORT.MD: Clarify the support state for the Arm SMMUv{1, 2} drivers


  • To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH] SUPPORT.MD: Clarify the support state for the Arm SMMUv{1, 2} drivers


> On 23 Sep 2020, at 12:17, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 23/09/2020 11:50, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>> On 23 Sep 2020, at 09:28, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> SMMUv{1, 2} are both marked as security supported, so we would
>>> technically have to issue an XSA for any IOMMU security bug.
>>> 
>>> However, at the moment, device passthrough is not security supported
>>> on Arm and there is no plan to change that in the next few months.
>>> 
>>> Therefore, mark Arm SMMUv{1, 2} as supported but not security supported.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> We will publish in the next week a first implementation of SMMUv3 support 
>> which might make sense to have fully Supported.
> 
> I am not sure whether you include security supported in your "fully supported"

If we something is missing we will be happy to fix it to reach this goal.

> 
> However, I would consider to follow the same model as we did with the IPMMU. 
> The driver would first be marked as a technical preview to allow more testing 
> in the community.

I was not meaning to have this at the very beginning.
More that it make more sense in general to have SMMUv3 with 2 level of page 
table supporting this then old SMMU versions.

Cheers
Bertrand

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall




 


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