Re: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and allocation APIs

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-19T12:46:55Z

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:58:41AM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:

> Although there is no use for it at the moment (only two upstream users and
> it looks like amdkfd always uses current too), I quite like the
> client-server model where the privileged process does bind() and programs
> the hardware queue on behalf of the client process.

This creates a lot complexity, how do does process A get a secure
reference to B? How does it access the memory in B to setup the HW?

Why do we need separation anyhow? SVM devices are supposed to be
secure or they shouldn't do SVM.

Jason