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Commit ff3dc652 authored by Jacob Pan's avatar Jacob Pan Committed by Joerg Roedel
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iommu/vt-d: Fix CPU and IOMMU SVM feature matching checks


Shared Virtual Memory(SVM) is based on a collective set of hardware
features detected at runtime. There are requirements for matching CPU
and IOMMU capabilities.

The current code checks CPU and IOMMU feature set for SVM support but
the result is never stored nor used. Therefore, SVM can still be used
even when these checks failed. The consequences can be:
1. CPU uses 5-level paging mode for virtual address of 57 bits, but
IOMMU can only support 4-level paging mode with 48 bits address for DMA.
2. 1GB page size is used by CPU but IOMMU does not support it. VT-d
unrecoverable faults may be generated.

The best solution to fix these problems is to prevent them in the first
place.

This patch consolidates code for checking PASID, CPU vs. IOMMU paging
mode compatibility, as well as provides specific error messages for
each failed checks. On sane hardware configurations, these error message
shall never appear in kernel log.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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