On 9/2/22 00:29, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 03:00:26AM +0000, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
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Hi,
A sysfs file /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/domainX/iommu_dma_protection is exported from the kernel and used by userspace to make judgments on whether to automatically authorize PCIe tunnels for USB4 devices.
Before kernel 5.19 this file was only populated on Intel USB4 and TBT3 controllers, but starting with 5.19 it also populates for non-Intel as well.
So that's a new kernel feature?
The sysfs file was there all along, but it always showed "0" for
anything but Intel systems. This makes it work properly on everyone else.
This is accomplished by an assertion from the IOMMU subsystem that it's safe to do so by a combination of firmware and hardware.
Here is the patch series on top of 5.15.64:
3f6634d997dba8140b3a7cba01776b9638d70dff
ed36d04e8f8d7b00db451b0fa56a54e8e02ec43e
d0be55fbeb6ac694d15af5d1aad19cdec8cd64e5
f316ba0a8814f4c91e80a435da3421baf0ddd24c
f1ca70717bcb4525e29da422f3d280acbddb36fe
bfb3ba32061da1a9217ef6d02fbcffb528e4c8df
418e0a3551bbef5b221705b0e5b8412cdc0afd39
acdb89b6c87a2d7b5c48a82756e6f5c6f599f60a
ea4692c75e1c63926e4fb0728f5775ef0d733888
86eaf4a5b4312bea8676fb79399d9e08b53d8e71
Can you please consider backporting them to 5.15.y+?
I don't understand why all of the string helpers are needed just for the
last commit, are you sure this is all necessary?
The last commit (thunderbolt commit) uses one of them. That commit for
the one of them doesn't come back cleanly, but catching all of them up does.
So I could potentially change the thunderbolt commit to not use the
string helper, but figured this was cleaner.
And again, this feels like new features are being added that are much
more than just a "new device id added". Why not just use 5.19 for this
hardware?
Stuff like this is targeted towards businesses that would want to be
using LTS kernels. In fact I heard "But on Intel we just plug in the
dock and it just works" is what prompted the series in the first place.
It improves usability quite a bit because without it you need to know to
manually change the sysfs file for your dock to work or you need to have
GNOME installed and go and find the panel to change it.
With this sysfs file is showing the right value you get all that
happening automatically.
thanks,
greg k-h
