On 03/19/2013 06:28 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Mm. The question is whether we can reliably determine the ranges a device 
> should be able to access without having to trust userspace (and, ideally, 
> without having to worry about whether iommu vendors have done their job). 
> It's pretty important for PCI passthrough, so we do need to care. 

It is actually very simple: the device should be able to DMA into/out of:

1. pinned pages
2. owned by the process controlling the device

... and nothing else.

        -hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


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