[PATCH 0/1] Mask VT-d DMAR faults for IGD devices

2020-04-17 Thread Brendan Kerrigan
From: Brendan Kerrigan The Intel IOMMU for at least 8th and 9th generation Core processors has a bug where the Fault Processing Disable bit is not respected for the Intel Graphics Device (IGD). The resulting behavior was reported previously[1]. The underlying cause is described by Intel as

[PATCH 1/1] x86/vtd: Mask DMAR faults for IGD devices

2020-04-17 Thread Brendan Kerrigan
From: Brendan Kerrigan The Intel graphics device records DMAR faults regardless of the Fault Process Disable bit being set. When this fault occurs, enable the Interrupt Mask (IM) bit in the Fault Event Control (FECTL) register to prevent the continued recording of the fault. Signed-off-by

Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/vtd: Mask DMAR faults for IGD devices

2020-04-20 Thread Brendan Kerrigan
blem. -Brendan On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 11:28 PM Tian, Kevin wrote: > > From: Brendan Kerrigan > > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 9:36 PM > > > > From: Brendan Kerrigan > > > > The Intel graphics device records DMAR faults regardless > > of the Fault Proc

Design Session Notes - "How best to upstream Bareflank's implementation of the Xen VMM into the Xen Project"

2020-07-06 Thread Brendan Kerrigan
# Design Session Notes - "How best to upstream Bareflank's implementation of the Xen VMM into the Xen Project" ## Design Session Description Assured Information Security, Inc. has been working on a new implementation of the Xen VMM (i.e., just the root component of the Xen hypervisor) using Barefla