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Borislav Petkov 711885906b x86/Kconfig: Do not enable AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT automatically 
This Kconfig option was added initially so that memory encryption is
enabled by default on machines which support it.

However, devices which have DMA masks that are less than the bit
position of the encryption bit, aka C-bit, require the use of an IOMMU
or the use of SWIOTLB.

If the IOMMU is disabled or in passthrough mode, the kernel would switch
to SWIOTLB bounce-buffering for those transfers.

In order to avoid that,

  2cc13bb4f5 ("iommu: Disable passthrough mode when SME is active")

disables the default IOMMU passthrough mode so that devices for which the
default 256K DMA is insufficient, can use the IOMMU instead.

However 2, there are cases where the IOMMU is disabled in the BIOS, etc.
(think the usual hardware folk "oops, I dropped the ball there" cases) or a
driver doesn't properly use the DMA APIs or a device has a firmware or
hardware bug, e.g.:

  ea68573d40 ("drm/amdgpu: Fail to load on RAVEN if SME is active")

However 3, in the above GPU use case, there are APIs like Vulkan and
some OpenGL/OpenCL extensions which are under the assumption that
user-allocated memory can be passed in to the kernel driver and both the
GPU and CPU can do coherent and concurrent access to the same memory.
That cannot work with SWIOTLB bounce buffers, of course.

So, in order for those devices to function, drop the "default y" for the
SME by default active option so that users who want to have SME enabled,
will need to either enable it in their config or use "mem_encrypt=on" on
the kernel command line.

 [ tlendacky: Generalize commit message. ]

Fixes: 7744ccdbc1 ("x86/mm: Add Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support")
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8bbacd0e-4580-3194-19d2-a0ecad7df09c@molgen.mpg.de
History 2021-10-11 19:14:22 +02:00
arch x86/Kconfig: Do not enable AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT automatically 2021-10-11 19:14:22 +02:00
block block-5.15-2021-10-09 2021-10-09 14:51:59 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation xen: branch for v5.15-rc5 2021-10-08 12:55:23 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'i2c/for-current-fixed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2021-10-09 15:03:48 -07:00
fs Six fixes for the ksmbd kernel server, including two additional overflow checks, a fix for oops, and some cleanup (e.g. remove dead code for less secure dialects that has been removed) 2021-10-09 10:17:17 -07:00
include xen: branch for v5.15-rc5 2021-10-08 12:55:23 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.init' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-09-24 10:18:07 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel Networking fixes for 5.15-rc5, including fixes from xfrm, bpf, 2021-10-07 09:50:31 -07:00
lib lib/zlib_inflate/inffast: check config in C to avoid unused function warning 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
net Bug fixes for NFSD error handling paths 2021-10-07 14:11:40 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Relicense bpf_insn.h as GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause 2021-09-29 16:03:55 +02:00
scripts RISC-V Fixes for 5.15-rc5 2021-10-09 09:07:58 -07:00
security Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ 2021-10-07 12:44:41 +01:00
sound ALSA: pcsp: Make hrtimer forwarding more robust 2021-09-28 10:58:08 +02:00
tools - Remove an extra section.len member in favour of section.sh_size 2021-10-10 10:05:39 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty 2021-09-23 11:01:12 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address of Matthias Fuchs and Thomas Körper 2021-08-19 09:39:44 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for v5.15 2021-10-07 14:01:29 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc5 2021-10-10 17:01:59 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.