RE: [RFC PATCH] x86/insn: support decode MOVSXD instruction for MMIO

[David Laight]

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
> Sent: 31 March 2023 16:25
...
> > No, SEV doesn't support userspace MMIO.
> 
> But where do you filter out userspace MMIO? AFAICS, it goes straight from
> from #VC to insn_decode_mmio(). Hm?

Probably by making vm_iomap_memory() fail.

Otherwise MOVSXD is the least of your problems.
You'd need to worry about all the AVX opcodes as well.

Although you might even find kernel code that is using
kernel_fpu_begin/end() to wrap mmio copies that use the
big AVX512 registers.
When each PCIe read takes about 1us (measured into our fpga)
increasing the TLP to 64 bytes (from 8) makes a massive
difference to buffer reads.
(Mostly we try to get the fpga to do writes instead.)

	David

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