[PATCH 1/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Document SVA interaction with new pagetable features

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:48:09 +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Process pagetables may now be using new permission-indirection-based
> features which an SMMU may not understand when given such a table for
> SVA. Although SMMUv3.4 does add its own S1PIE feature, realistically
> we're still going to have to cope with feature mismatches between CPUs
> and SMMUs, so let's start simple and essentially just document the
> expectations for what falls out as-is. Although it seems unlikely for
> SVA applications to also depend on memory-hardening features, or
> vice-versa, the relative lifecycles make it tricky to enforce mutual
> exclusivity. Thankfully our PIE index allocation makes it relatively
> benign for an SMMU to keep interpreting them as direct permissions, the
> only real implication is that an SVA application cannot harden itself
> against its own devices with these features. Thus, inform the user about
> that just in case they have other expectations.
> 
> [...]

Applied SMMU change to will (for-joerg/arm-smmu/updates), thanks!

[1/2] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Document SVA interaction with new pagetable features
      https://git.kernel.org/will/c/6e192214c6c8

Cheers,
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Will

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