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Re: [Part1 PATCH v5 10/17] x86/mm, resource: Use PAGE_KERNEL protection for ioremap of memory pages

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> 
> In order for memory pages to be properly mapped when SEV is active, we
> need to use the PAGE_KERNEL protection attribute as the base protection.
> This will insure that memory mapping of, e.g. ACPI tables, receives the
> proper mapping attributes.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c  | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  include/linux/ioport.h |  3 ++
>  kernel/resource.c      | 19 ++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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