Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] PCI: liveupdate: Inherit ACS flags in incoming preserved devices

Pasha Tatashin <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:08:05 +0000
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.kexec,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-pci,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <178432608536.189683.17937493816735356455.b4-review@b4>
On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:26:11 +0000, David Matlack <[email protected]> wrote:
> Inherit Access Control Services (ACS) flags on all incoming preserved
> devices (endpoints and upstream bridges) during a Live Update.
> 
> Inheriting ACS flags avoids changing routing rules while memory
> transactions are in flight from preserved devices. This is also strictly
> necessary to ensure that IOMMU group assignments do not change across
> a Live Update for preserved devices, as changing ACS configurations can
> split or merge IOMMU groups.
> 
> [...]

Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <[email protected]>

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Pasha Tatashin <[email protected]>