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2013-08-05vfio: add external user supportAlexey Kardashevskiy1-0/+7
VFIO is designed to be used via ioctls on file descriptors returned by VFIO. However in some situations support for an external user is required. The first user is KVM on PPC64 (SPAPR TCE protocol) which is going to use the existing VFIO groups for exclusive access in real/virtual mode on a host to avoid passing map/unmap requests to the user space which would made things pretty slow. The protocol includes: 1. do normal VFIO init operation: - opening a new container; - attaching group(s) to it; - setting an IOMMU driver for a container. When IOMMU is set for a container, all groups in it are considered ready to use by an external user. 2. User space passes a group fd to an external user. The external user calls vfio_group_get_external_user() to verify that: - the group is initialized; - IOMMU is set for it. If both checks passed, vfio_group_get_external_user() increments the container user counter to prevent the VFIO group from disposal before KVM exits. 3. The external user calls vfio_external_user_iommu_id() to know an IOMMU ID. PPC64 KVM uses it to link logical bus number (LIOBN) with IOMMU ID. 4. When the external KVM finishes, it calls vfio_group_put_external_user() to release the VFIO group. This call decrements the container user counter. Everything gets released. The "vfio: Limit group opens" patch is also required for the consistency. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-03-11VFIO: Wrapper for getting reference to vfio_deviceVijay Mohan Pandarathil1-0/+3
- Added vfio_device_get_from_dev() as wrapper to get reference to vfio_device from struct device. - Added vfio_device_data() as a wrapper to get device_data from vfio_device. Signed-off-by: Vijay Mohan Pandarathil <vijaymohan.pandarathil@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells1-356/+1
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-07-31vfio: Add PCI device driverAlex Williamson1-0/+26
Add PCI device support for VFIO. PCI devices expose regions for accessing config space, I/O port space, and MMIO areas of the device. PCI config access is virtualized in the kernel, allowing us to ensure the integrity of the system, by preventing various accesses while reducing duplicate support across various userspace drivers. I/O port supports read/write access while MMIO also supports mmap of sufficiently sized regions. Support for INTx, MSI, and MSI-X interrupts are provided using eventfds to userspace. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31vfio: Type1 IOMMU implementationAlex Williamson1-1/+53
This VFIO IOMMU backend is designed primarily for AMD-Vi and Intel VT-d hardware, but is potentially usable by anything supporting similar mapping functionality. We arbitrarily call this a Type1 backend for lack of a better name. This backend has no IOVA or host memory mapping restrictions for the user and is optimized for relatively static mappings. Mapped areas are pinned into system memory. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31vfio: VFIO coreAlex Williamson1-0/+367
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: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>