** Information type changed from Proprietary to Public

** Also affects: ubuntu
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Description changed:

  Description:
  Accelerator Interface Architecture introduces new instructions (AiA).
  ENQCMD in particular uses a per-thread MSR to retrieve the PASID that kernel 
IOMMU code setup during a call to intel_svm_bind_mm(). If a fork were to 
happen, these PASID's aren't migrate-able since the cr3 for the new process is 
different.
  we would need to make sure that the new process doesn't copy the context bits.
  fpu__copy() needs to ensure we don't move over bits that are pre-thread and 
requires special dup() to rebind a new PASID if required. For now keeping it 
cleared will ensure a future call to enqcmd() will #GP if new PASID mappings 
aren't established.
  
  Target Kernel:TBD
- Target Release: 18.10
+ Target Release: 19.04

** Tags removed: intel-kernel-18.10
** Tags added: intel-kernel-19.04

** Information type changed from Public to Private

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  [Feature][IOMMU]SIOV: XSAVES bits will need to be cleared during a
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