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author | Peng Fan <van.freenix@gmail.com> | 2016-05-23 17:47:30 +0800 |
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committer | Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> | 2016-06-23 09:37:17 -0600 |
commit | 9698cbf0bea6b9f5c3190ce97bdf8963c0148671 (patch) | |
tree | db8f56c9d80e4146f7d563508b41080000d84c90 /Documentation | |
parent | 33688abb2802ff3a230bd2441f765477b94cc89e (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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