[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Device error handling / reporting / isolation

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Joerg Roedel <joro at 8bytes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:11:46PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> I was actually thinking of fully disabling the IOMMU if it only has
>> one child device to isolate the possible damage.
>
> If you disable the IOMMU you also disable the protection from the child.
> This also changes the address space of the device by disabling the IOTLB
> and might make the device overwrite random memory.

Oh, I think I'm using confusing language here. By disable I mean fully
isolate the device by dropping all dma silently onto the floor.
Disabling the iommu as in allowing the device direct access to the
unremapping memory so it can scribble all over is ofc not what I want,
ever ;-) So maybe I should say "disable all DMA by isolating the
device".
-Daniel
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