Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)

2020-09-18 Thread Fenghua Yu
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:30:41PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:22:39AM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote: > > s/translation again/translation > > Ok, last one. Now stop looking at that text because you'll find more. > > :-))) Thank you very much for taking care of the

Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)

2020-09-17 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:22:39AM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote: > s/translation again/translation Ok, last one. Now stop looking at that text because you'll find more. :-))) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)

2020-09-17 Thread Raj, Ashok
Thanks Boris. multiple "again" makes it funny again :-) On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:18:49PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote: > > Just tweaked it a bit: > > > > "When ATS lookup fails for a virtual address, device should use PRI in > >

Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)

2020-09-17 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote: > Just tweaked it a bit: > > "When ATS lookup fails for a virtual address, device should use PRI in > order to request the virtual address to be paged into the CPU page tables. > The device must use ATS again in order the fetch the

Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)

2020-09-17 Thread Raj, Ashok
Hi Boris, On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:53:38AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 09:30:07AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > +Background > > +== > > + > > +Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) allows the processor and device to use the > > +same virtual addresses avoiding the

Re: [PATCH v8 3/9] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)

2020-09-17 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 09:30:07AM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote: > +Background > +== > + > +Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) allows the processor and device to use the > +same virtual addresses avoiding the need for software to translate virtual > +addresses to physical addresses. SVA is what