Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] iommu/vt-d: Enable write protect for supervisor SVM

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Mar 30 2021 - 15:03:25 EST


On 3/30/21 10:52 AM, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:53:38 -0700, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 02:13:57AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
>>> Write protect bit, when set, inhibits supervisor writes to the read-only
>>> pages. In supervisor shared virtual addressing (SVA), where page tables
>>> are shared between CPU and DMA, IOMMU PASID entry WPE bit should match
>>> CR0.WP bit in the CPU.
>>> This patch sets WPE bit for supervisor PASIDs if CR0.WP is set.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sanjay Kumar <sanjay.k.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>
>> ia64:defconfig:
>>
>> drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c: In function 'pasid_enable_wpe':
>> drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c:536:22: error: implicit declaration of
>> function 'read_cr0' drivers/iommu/intel/pasid.c:539:23: error:
>> 'X86_CR0_WP' undeclared
>>
>> Maybe it _is_ time to retire ia64 ?
>
> Good catch, sorry for the late reply. I guess otherwise I will have to do
> some #ifdef?
>

I really can't tell you how to resolve this.

> There are many basic x86 helpers are missing in ia64.
>
I'd say that Intel needs to decide what to do with the ia64 architecture.

Guenter

> +Tony
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacob
>