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VT-d's dmar_platform_optin() actually represents a combination of properties fairly well standardised by Microsoft as "Pre-boot DMA Protection" and "Kernel DMA Protection"[1]. As such, we can provide interested consumers with an abstracted capability rather than driver-specific interfaces that won't scale. We name it for the former aspect since that's what external callers are most likely to be interested in; the latter is for the IOMMU layer to handle itself. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-kernel-dma-protection Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d6218dff2702472da80db6aec2c9589010684551.1650878781.git.robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.