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From: "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "Song, Youquan" <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"hpa@linux.intel.com" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	"Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"Liu, Kent" <kent.liu@intel.com>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86, vt-d: enable x2apic opt out
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:49:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305625748.8008.98.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305577977.3146.112.camel@x201>

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On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 21:32 +0100, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Just a guess, but the OEM probably hasn't updated their SMI handlers to
> understand x2apic yet and won't before the product ships because some
> other OS doesn't bother to use x2apic. 

Yay, crappy closed-source BIOS holds back the platform yet again.

>  We can still enable interrupt remapping w/o x2apic though, so I'm
> curious what other irq injection tricks you're referring to.  Thanks,

http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2011/Software%20Attacks%20on%20Intel%20VT-d.pdf

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-14  7:06 Youquan Song
2011-05-11 15:07 ` Woodhouse, David
2011-05-12  3:39   ` Youquan Song
2011-05-11 15:39     ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-11 22:38       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-16 20:32   ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-17  9:49     ` Woodhouse, David [this message]
2011-05-17 12:50       ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-18 22:58     ` Woodhouse, David
2011-05-19  5:43       ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-11 17:21 ` Woodhouse, David
2011-05-12  1:52 ` Youquan Song

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