tree 0a2b714214912ec3feecdd2193d0df3e51ea7851
parent 1478b99a76534b6c244cfe24fa616280a9441118
author Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> 1600187413 -0700
committer Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> 1600366935 +0200

x86/mmu: Allocate/free a PASID

A PASID is allocated for an "mm" the first time any thread binds to an
SVA-capable device and is freed from the "mm" when the SVA is unbound
by the last thread. It's possible for the "mm" to have different PASID
values in different binding/unbinding SVA cycles.

The mm's PASID (non-zero for valid PASID or 0 for invalid PASID) is
propagated to a per-thread PASID MSR for all threads within the mm
through IPI, context switch, or inherited. This is done to ensure that a
running thread has the right PASID in the MSR matching the mm's PASID.

 [ bp: s/SVM/SVA/g; massage. ]

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600187413-163670-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com