Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:25:14 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Lyon <pugs@cisco.com>, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
       joro@8bytes.org, hjk@linutronix.de, mst@redhat.com, aafabbri@cisco.com,
       scofeldm@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
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On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 02:04:53PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

If this ever gets that far, I'll be glad to take it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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