Re: [PATCHv10 10/15] x86/mm, iommu/sva: Make LAM and SVM mutually exclusive

From: Vasant Hegde
Date: Wed Oct 19 2022 - 03:04:43 EST


Hi Kirill,

On 10/18/2022 5:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> IOMMU and SVM-capable devices know nothing about LAM and only expect
> canonical addresses. Attempt to pass down tagged pointer will lead to
> address translation failure.
>
> By default do not allow to enable both LAM and use SVM in the same
> process.
>
> The new ARCH_FORCE_TAGGED_SVM arch_prctl() overrides the limitation.

Better s/SVM/SVA/ ? So that its consistent with IOMMU usage.

-Vasant