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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Sricharan R <sricharan@codeaurora.org>
Cc: jcrouse@codeaurora.org, pdaly@codeaurora.org,
	jgebben@codeaurora.org, joro@8bytes.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pratikp@codeaurora.org,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, robin.murphy@arm.com,
	tzeng@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	will.deacon@arm.com, mitchelh@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH V6 5/6] dmaengine: pl330: Make sure microcode is privileged
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:31:15 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161206050115.GP6408@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480690509-13490-6-git-send-email-sricharan@codeaurora.org>

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:25:08PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
> From: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@codeaurora.org>
> 
> The PL330 performs privileged instruction fetches.  This can result in
> SMMU permission faults on SMMUs that implement the ARMv8 VMSA, which
> specifies that mappings that are writeable at one execution level shall
> not be executable at any higher-privileged level.  Fix this by using the
> DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED attribute, which will ensure that the microcode
> IOMMU mapping is only accessible to the privileged level.

Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>

-- 
~Vinod

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-06  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 14:55 [RESEND PATCH V6 0/6] Add support for privileged mappings Sricharan R
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [RESEND PATCH V6 1/6] iommu: add IOMMU_PRIV attribute Sricharan R
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [RESEND PATCH V6 2/6] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: add support for the IOMMU_PRIV flag Sricharan R
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [RESEND PATCH V6 3/6] common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED attribute Sricharan R
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [RESEND PATCH V6 4/6] arm64/dma-mapping: Implement DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED Sricharan R
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [RESEND PATCH V6 5/6] dmaengine: pl330: Make sure microcode is privileged Sricharan R
2016-12-06  5:01   ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2016-12-02 14:55 ` [PATCH V6 6/6] iommu/arm-smmu: Set privileged attribute to 'default' instead of 'unprivileged' Sricharan R
2016-12-06 17:31   ` Will Deacon
2016-12-02 16:16 ` [RESEND PATCH V6 0/6] Add support for privileged mappings Robin Murphy
2016-12-04  7:48   ` Sricharan
2016-12-06 19:14     ` Robin Murphy
2016-12-07  9:44       ` Sricharan
2016-12-12 19:34       ` Sricharan

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