Re: [PATCH v6 26/34] iommu/amd: Allow the AMD IOMMU to work with memory encryption

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Thu Jun 15 2017 - 16:14:53 EST


On June 15, 2017 11:33:22 AM EDT, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 09:59:45AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> Actually the detection routine, amd_iommu_detect(), is part of the
>> IOMMU_INIT_FINISH macro support which is called early through
>mm_init()
>> from start_kernel() and that routine is called before init_amd().
>
>Ah, we do that there too:
>
> for (p = __iommu_table; p < __iommu_table_end; p++) {
>
>Can't say that that code with the special section and whatnot is
>obvious. :-\
>

Patches to make it more obvious would be always welcome!



Thanks!