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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 11/15] pci: Add pci_iomap_shared{,_range}
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On 8/23/21 4:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Add a new variant of pci_iomap for mapping all PCI resources
>> of a devices as shared memory with a hypervisor in a confidential
>> guest.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen<ak@linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
> I'm a bit puzzled by this part. So why should the guest*not* map
> pci memory as shared? And if the answer is never (as it seems to be)
> then why not just make regular pci_iomap DTRT?

It is in the context of confidential guest (where VMM is un-trusted). So
we don't want to make all PCI resource as shared. It should be allowed
only for hardened drivers/devices.

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer

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