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author | Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> | 2013-10-30 11:02:17 -0600 |
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committer | Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2014-10-02 17:18:17 +0200 |
commit | a7dc5f55357702cc04773cd9e92a853767209d7d (patch) | |
tree | 6d8af42cc840c1959b0cc18b90f438a765caefe1 /Documentation | |
parent | b4fe3057a0c543ed42aa2a69a6ab9a5312571c34 (diff) |
kvm: Add VFIO device
So far we've succeeded at making KVM and VFIO mostly unaware of each
other, but areas are cropping up where a connection beyond eventfds
and irqfds needs to be made. This patch introduces a KVM-VFIO device
that is meant to be a gateway for such interaction. The user creates
the device and can add and remove VFIO groups to it via file
descriptors. When a group is added, KVM verifies the group is valid
and gets a reference to it via the VFIO external user interface.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit ec53500fae421e07c5d035918ca454a429732ef4)
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ef51740c67ca --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +VFIO virtual device +=================== + +Device types supported: + KVM_DEV_TYPE_VFIO + +Only one VFIO instance may be created per VM. The created device +tracks VFIO groups in use by the VM and features of those groups +important to the correctness and acceleration of the VM. As groups +are enabled and disabled for use by the VM, KVM should be updated +about their presence. When registered with KVM, a reference to the +VFIO-group is held by KVM. + +Groups: + KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP + +KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP attributes: + KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ADD: Add a VFIO group to VFIO-KVM device tracking + KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL: Remove a VFIO group from VFIO-KVM device tracking + +For each, kvm_device_attr.addr points to an int32_t file descriptor +for the VFIO group. |