RadeonSI Driver Now Supports AMD Trusted Memory Zone
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The AMD Trusted Memory Zone support allows for protecting pages from being read by the CPU and other non-GPU clients can protect against writes to those protected pages.
With Linux 5.8 the feature needs to be flipped on via the amdgpu.tmz=1 kernel module parameter but even beyond that the user-space clients need to opt-in for utilizing Trusted Memory Zone.
AMD's Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer has been working on the TMZ support for RadeonSI Gallium3D and that was merged overnight. Besides needing Linux 5.8+, the latest libdrm library is also required.
With the merged code when running on a supported kernel, if setting the AMD_DEBUG=tmz environment variable will enable the Trusted Memory Zone support during OpenGL rendering. So far there isn't any TMZ support for Vulkan or other AMD user-space components.
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