Re: [PATCH 2/3] iommu/vt-d: Parse SATC reporting structure

From: Raj, Ashok
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 11:44:02 EST


On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 12:40:56PM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> From: Yian Chen <yian.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Software should parse every SATC table and all devices in the tables
> reported by the BIOS and keep the information in kernel list for further
> SATC policy deployment.
>
The last part seems bit vague? Are you trying to imply,

if kernel is booted with noats for instance, a device listed in SATC table
as "requires ATS" will fail to load?

Otherwise its not clear what the policy enforcement means.