Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 10/26/23 02:11, Lukas Wunner wrote: This has recently been brought up internally at Intel and nobody could understand why there's a whitelist in the first place. A long-time PCI architect told me that Intel silicon validation has been testing P2PDMA at least since the Lindenhurst days,

Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Logan Gunthorpe
On 2023-10-25 11:35, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:11:26PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:30:07AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: >>> In addition to the above, P2PDMA transfers are only allowed by the >>> kernel for traffic that flows through certain

Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Deucher, Alexander
[Public] > -Original Message- > From: Logan Gunthorpe > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 12:30 PM > To: Uwe Kleine-König ; Bjorn Helgaas > > Cc: Simon Richter ; 1015...@bugs.debian.org; linux- > p...@vger.kernel.org; Deucher, Alexander ; > Krzysztof Wilczyński ; Emanuele Rocca >

Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:11:26PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:30:07AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > In addition to the above, P2PDMA transfers are only allowed by the > > kernel for traffic that flows through certain host bridges that are > > known to work. For

Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Lukas Wunner
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:30:07AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > In addition to the above, P2PDMA transfers are only allowed by the > kernel for traffic that flows through certain host bridges that are > known to work. For AMD, all modern CPUs are on this list, but for Intel, > the list is very

Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Logan Gunthorpe
On 2023-10-25 00:19, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > in https://bugs.debian.org/1015871 the Debian kernel team got a request > to enable PCI_P2PDMA. Given the description of the feature and also the > "If unsure, say N." I wonder if you consider it safe to enable this > option. I don't

Bug#1015871: Enabling PCI_P2PDMA for distro kernels?

2023-10-25 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, in https://bugs.debian.org/1015871 the Debian kernel team got a request to enable PCI_P2PDMA. Given the description of the feature and also the "If unsure, say N." I wonder if you consider it safe to enable this option. Assuming this option isn't completely free of security concerns, a