x86-pasid-2022-03-21
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21 Mar 10:59
- Simplify the PASID handling to allocate the PASID once, associate it to the mm of a process and free it on mm_exit(). The previous attempt of refcounted PASIDs and dynamic alloc()/free() turned out to be error prone and too complex. The PASID space is 20bits, so the case of resource exhaustion is a pure academic concern. - Populate the PASID MSR on demand via #GP to avoid racy updates via IPIs. - Reenable ENQCMD and let objtool check for the forbidden usage of ENQCMD in the kernel. - Update the documentation for Shared Virtual Addressing accordingly.