Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] s390: virtio: let arch accept devices without IOMMU feature

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On 2020-06-18 00:29, Halil Pasic wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:43:57 +0200
Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An architecture protecting the guest memory against unauthorized host
access may want to enforce VIRTIO I/O device protection through the
use of VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM.

Let's give a chance to the architecture to accept or not devices
without VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM.

[..]


I'm still not really satisfied with your commit message, furthermore
I did some thinking about the abstraction you introduce here. I will
give a short analysis of that, but first things first. Your patch does
the job of preventing calamity, and the details can be changed any time,
thus:

Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Connie already answered the other points you raised and I have nothing to add on it.

Regards,
Pierre


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Pierre Morel
IBM Lab Boeblingen



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