[RFC PATCH v5 02/11] ARM SMMU: Add capability IOMMU_CAP_DMA_EXEC

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Apr 28 12:37:10 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 04:52:42PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote:
> The ARM SMMU can take an IOMMU_EXEC protection flag in addition to
> IOMMU_READ and IOMMU_WRITE. Expose this as an IOMMU capability.

The other way of handling this would be to negate the capability and
advertise a NOEXEC cap instead. That would need the IOMMU_EXEC flag to
become IOMMU_NOEXEC and the ARM SMMU driver updating accordingly, but it
might make more sense if people don't object to mixing positive and negative
logic in the IOMMU_* flags.

Any thoughts?

Will



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