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authorPeng Fan <van.freenix@gmail.com>2016-05-23 17:47:30 +0800
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2016-06-23 09:37:17 -0600
commit9698cbf0bea6b9f5c3190ce97bdf8963c0148671 (patch)
treedb8f56c9d80e4146f7d563508b41080000d84c90 /Documentation
parent33688abb2802ff3a230bd2441f765477b94cc89e (diff)
vfio: platform: support No-IOMMU mode
The vfio No-IOMMU mode was supported by this 'commit 03a76b60f8ba2797 ("vfio: Include No-IOMMU mode")', but it only support vfio-pci. Using vfio_iommu_group_get/put, but not iommu_group_get/put, the platform devices can be exposed to userspace with CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU and the "enable_unsafe_noiommu_mode" option enabled. From 'commit 03a76b60f8ba2797 ("vfio: Include No-IOMMU mode")', "This should make it very clear that this mode is not safe. Additionally, CAP_SYS_RAWIO privileges are necessary to work with groups and containers using this mode. Groups making use of this support are named /dev/vfio/noiommu-$GROUP and can only make use of the special VFIO_NOIOMMU_IOMMU for the container. Use of this mode, specifically binding a device without a native IOMMU group to a VFIO bus driver will taint the kernel and should therefore not be considered supported." Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <van.freenix@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> Cc: Baptiste Reynal <b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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