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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:04:53 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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To: Tom Lyon <pugs@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
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On 06/09/2010 12:21 AM, Tom Lyon wrote:
> The VFIO "driver" is used to allow privileged AND non-privileged processes to
> implement user-level device drivers for any well-behaved PCI, PCI-X, and PCIe
> devices.
> 	Signed-off-by: Tom Lyon<pugs@cisco.com>
> ---
> This version now requires an IOMMU domain to be set before any access to
> device registers is granted (except that config space may be read).  In
> addition, the VFIO_DMA_MAP_ANYWHERE is dropped - it used the dma_map_sg API
> which does not have sufficient controls around IOMMU usage.  The IOMMU domain
> is obtained from the 'uiommu' driver which is included in this patch.
>
> Various locking, security, and documentation issues have also been fixed.
>
> Please commit - it or me!
> But seriously, who gets to commit this? Avi for KVM?

Definitely not me.

> or GregKH for drivers?
>    

I guess.

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