Alex Williamson cba3345cc4 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 <alex.williamson@redhat.com>		2012-07-31 08:16:22 -06:00
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00-INDEX	Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.	2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
cdrom.txt	cdrom: update ioctl documentation	2008-09-27 19:32:17 +02:00
hdio.txt	Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation	2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
ioctl-decoding.txt	Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.	2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
ioctl-number.txt	vfio: VFIO core	2012-07-31 08:16:22 -06:00