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SubjectRe: [REWORKED PATCH 1/1] iommu/vt-d: Preset Access/Dirty bits for IOVA over FL
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Hi Greg,

On 5/17/21 3:27 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 03:17:53PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 5/17/21 3:07 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:49:13AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
>>>> [ Upstream commit a8ce9ebbecdfda3322bbcece6b3b25888217f8e3 ]
>>>>
>>>> The Access/Dirty bits in the first level page table entry will be set
>>>> whenever a page table entry was used for address translation or write
>>>> permission was successfully translated. This is always true when using
>>>> the first-level page table for kernel IOVA. Instead of wasting hardware
>>>> cycles to update the certain bits, it's better to set them up at the
>>>> beginning.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115004202.953965-1-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>>> include/linux/intel-iommu.h | 2 ++
>>>> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> [Note:
>>>> - This is a reworked patch of
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20210512144819.664462530@linuxfoundation.org/T/#m65267f0a0091c2fcbde097cea91089775908faad.
>>>> - It aims to fix a reported issue of
>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213077.
>>>> - Please help to review and test.]
>>>
>>> What stable tree(s) is this supposed to be for?
>>
>> It's for 5.10.37.
>
> But the above commit is already in 5.10.y. And what about 5.11 and
> 5.12, were those backports incorrect?

Above commit is now only in v5.10.37. Other 5.10.y are not impacted.

5.11 and 5.12 both have correct backports.

>
> confused,
>
> greg k-h
>

Best regards,
baolu

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