Re: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/amd: Force identity mode for selected GPUs only

Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:53:08 -0300
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.iommu,org.kernel.vger.linux-pci
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 05:22:22PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:

> IIRC, they supported SME, but it wasn't usable due to other
> limitations (e.g., the requirement for identity mappings due to the
> display hw bug and the latency impact of encryption for displays in
> system memory).  Do you could effectively pick either SME or
> displays.

IMHO the GPU driver should fail if it cannot work because it can't
reach the IOVA space requried for SME ...

I don't think this should be a iommu problem to deal with

Jason