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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, joro@8bytes.org,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, baolu.lu@linux.intel.com,
	ashok.raj@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	jacob.jun.pan@intel.com, andreas.noever@gmail.com,
	michael.jamet@intel.com, YehezkelShB@gmail.com, lukas@wunner.de,
	ckellner@redhat.com, anthony.wong@canonical.com,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] thunderbolt: Export IOMMU based DMA protection support to userspace
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:36:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113103616.GQ2500@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4d2488e85174cff9ab8c641336d5919@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM>

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:22:25PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > +DMA protection utilizing IOMMU
> > +------------------------------
> > +Recent systems shipping with Windows 10 version 1803 or later may support a
> > +feature called `Kernel DMA Protection for Thunderbolt 3`_.  This means that
> 
> Keep in mind there will be systems that ship with Linux that enable this feature too ;)

Yes, you are absolutely right. I sometimes forgot that fact ;-)

> It might be better to make it time frame and platform  firmware oriented as it's
> entirely possible for an OEM to have a field firmware upgrade that may enable this
> functionality from the platform and allow an end user to upgrade to a sufficiently
> protected kernel or Windows OS to take advantage of it.

I agree. I will update this in the next version.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12 16:06 [PATCH 0/4] PCI / iommu / thunderbolt: IOMMU based DMA protection Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] PCI / ACPI: Identify external PCI devices Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 18:02   ` Lukas Wunner
2018-11-13 10:56     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-11-13 11:27       ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-13 11:45         ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-11-15 10:22           ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-15 11:13             ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-11-15 11:37               ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-15 12:07                 ` Lukas Wunner
2018-11-15 12:16                   ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-15 17:46                     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-11-15 17:58                       ` Yehezkel Bernat
2018-11-15 19:10                         ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-15 19:27                           ` Lukas Wunner
2018-11-15 19:32                             ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-16  9:18                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16  9:32                             ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-22 10:48                               ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-22 10:59                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-15 19:00                       ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-15 19:33                         ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-11-16 10:57                           ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-11-20 21:43                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-11-21 12:40                               ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-11-16  7:01                         ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] iommu/vt-d: Force IOMMU on for platform opt in hint Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 17:49   ` Raj, Ashok
2018-11-12 18:09   ` Alex Williamson
2018-11-12 19:51     ` Raj, Ashok
2018-11-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] iommu/vt-d: Do not enable ATS for external devices Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 17:53   ` Raj, Ashok
2018-11-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] thunderbolt: Export IOMMU based DMA protection support to userspace Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 16:22   ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-11-13 10:36     ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2018-11-12 16:59   ` Yehezkel Bernat
2018-11-13 10:55     ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-13 11:13       ` Yehezkel Bernat
2018-11-13 11:40         ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-13 14:42           ` Yehezkel Bernat
     [not found]             ` <20181113152038.GD2500@lahna.fi.intel.com>
2018-11-13 15:38               ` Yehezkel Bernat
2018-11-13 16:12                 ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-12 18:12 ` [PATCH 0/4] PCI / iommu / thunderbolt: IOMMU based DMA protection Lukas Wunner
2018-11-12 19:04   ` Yehezkel Bernat
2018-11-13 11:13   ` Mika Westerberg
2018-11-13  8:54 ` Joerg Roedel
2018-11-13 11:32   ` Mika Westerberg

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