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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [EFI,PCI] Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 11:50:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrWZwN-R=He2s1DLet8iOxB_AbuSGOJ3y7zW=qUmx33C=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACdnJuv50s61WPMpHtrF6_=q3sCXD_Tm=30mtLnR_apjV=gjQg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:41 AM Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 7:30 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>
> > Would a similar patch apply to non-EFI boot?  That is, in a BIOS boot,
> > is busmastering on when the kernel is loaded?
>
> It's only relevant where firmware configures the IOMMU but then
> removes that configuration before handing control to the OS. I'm not
> aware of that happening anywhere other than EFI.

Wouldn't it also be applicable in the much simpler case where the
firmware hands over control with no IOMMU configured but also with the
busmastering bit cleared.  Does firmware do this?  Does the kernel
currently configure the iOMMU before enabling busmastering?

--Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-04 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-03  0:40 [PATCH] [EFI,PCI] Allow disabling PCI busmastering on bridges during boot Matthew Garrett
2019-12-03  0:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-03 11:54   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-03 13:38     ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-12-03 19:36       ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-03 19:40     ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-04  7:11       ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-12-04 19:29         ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-03 15:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-03 16:33   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-03 19:41   ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-04 19:50     ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-12-04 19:56       ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-12 15:46         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-12-13 21:24           ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-03 18:23 ` kbuild test robot
2019-12-05 13:04 ` kbuild test robot

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