From cba3345cc494ad286ca8823f44b2c16cae496679 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Williamson Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:16:22 -0600 Subject: 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: Alex Williamson --- Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ioctl') diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt index 915f28c470e9..849b771c5e03 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ Code Seq#(hex) Include File Comments and kernel/power/user.c '8' all SNP8023 advanced NIC card +';' 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! -- cgit v1.2.2