[Linaro-mm-sig] Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] scatterlist: Add a flag for the restricted memory

[Christian König]

Am 28.06.24 um 22:16 schrieb Nicolas Dufresne:
> [SNIP]
>>>>> Why can't you get this information from userspace?
>>>> Same reason amd and i915/xe also pass this around internally in the
>>>> kernel, it's just that for those gpus the render and kms node are the
>>>> same
>>>> driver so this is easy.
>>>>
>> The reason I ask is that encryption here looks just like another
>> parameter for the buffer, e.g. like format, stride, tilling etc..
> I'm mostly a reader of the thread here, but I'd like to avoid basic mistakes.
> The buffer in question are "protected", meaning that the CPU HW does not have
> access to the underlying pages (or zone in the case of Meditatek).
>
> This is different from encrypted buffers, which don't need this level of
> protection, as without the security key to decrypt them, their content is close
> to random data.

Thanks for that clarification, this difference was absolutely not obvious.

In that case having a separate heap for this memory is indeed the 
easiest approach.

My question is still what would happen if the CPU tries to access this 
protected buffer? Or does the CPU not even have an address to do that?

Just out of curiosity, I mean the exporting heap should then somehow 
reject any attempt to mmap() or vmap() the buffer content.

Thanks,
Christian.