Re: [PATCH 2/5] iommu/vt-d: Remove WO permissions on second-level paging entries

From: Lu Baolu
Date: Thu Mar 18 2021 - 20:34:35 EST


Hi Joerg,

On 3/18/21 5:12 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
Hi,

On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 11:47:46AM -0800, Raj, Ashok wrote:
That is the primary motivation, given that we have moved to 1st level for
general IOVA, first level doesn't have a WO mapping. I didn't know enough
about the history to determine if a WO without a READ is very useful. I
guess the ZLR was invented to support those cases without a READ in PCIe. I

Okay, please update the commit message and re-send. I guess these
patches are 5.13 stuff. In that case, Baolu can include them into his
pull request later this cycle.

Okay! It works for me.

Best regards,
baolu