Commit cba3345c authored by Alex Williamson's avatar Alex Williamson
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vfio: VFIO core 



VFIO is a secure user level driver for use with both virtual machines
and user level drivers.  VFIO makes use of IOMMU groups to ensure the
isolation of devices in use, allowing unprivileged user access.  It's
intended that VFIO will replace KVM device assignment and UIO drivers
(in cases where the target platform includes a sufficiently capable
IOMMU).

New in this version of VFIO is support for IOMMU groups managed
through the IOMMU core as well as a rework of the API, removing the
group merge interface.  We now go back to a model more similar to
original VFIO with UIOMMU support where the file descriptor obtained
from /dev/vfio/vfio allows access to the IOMMU, but only after a
group is added, avoiding the previous privilege issues with this type
of model.  IOMMU support is also now fully modular as IOMMUs have
vastly different interface requirements on different platforms.  VFIO
users are able to query and initialize the IOMMU model of their
choice.

Please see the follow-on Documentation commit for further description
and usage example.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
parent 2e3ee613

Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt

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		and kernel/power/user.c

'8'	all				SNP8023 advanced NIC card

					<mailto:mcr@solidum.com>

';'	64-7F	linux/vfio.h

'@'	00-0F	linux/radeonfb.h	conflict!

'@'	00-0F	drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c	conflict!

'A'	00-1F	linux/apm_bios.h	conflict!

MAINTAINERS

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F:	Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt

F:	fs/fat/



VFIO DRIVER

M:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

L:	kvm@vger.kernel.org

S:	Maintained

F:	Documentation/vfio.txt

F:	drivers/vfio/

F:	include/linux/vfio.h



VIDEOBUF2 FRAMEWORK

M:	Pawel Osciak <pawel@osciak.com>

M:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

drivers/Kconfig

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source "drivers/uio/Kconfig"



source "drivers/vfio/Kconfig"



source "drivers/vlynq/Kconfig"



source "drivers/virtio/Kconfig"

drivers/Makefile

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obj-$(CONFIG_FUSION)		+= message/

obj-y				+= firewire/

obj-$(CONFIG_UIO)		+= uio/

obj-$(CONFIG_VFIO)		+= vfio/

obj-y				+= cdrom/

obj-y				+= auxdisplay/

obj-$(CONFIG_PCCARD)		+= pcmcia/

drivers/vfio/Kconfig

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menuconfig VFIO

	tristate "VFIO Non-Privileged userspace driver framework"

	depends on IOMMU_API

	help

	  VFIO provides a framework for secure userspace device drivers.

	  See Documentation/vfio.txt for more details.



	  If you don't know what to do here, say N.

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