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>
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Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt
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VFIO virtual device
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Device types supported:
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KVM_DEV_TYPE_VFIO
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Only one VFIO instance may be created per VM. The created device
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tracks VFIO groups in use by the VM and features of those groups
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important to the correctness and acceleration of the VM. As groups
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are enabled and disabled for use by the VM, KVM should be updated
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about their presence. When registered with KVM, a reference to the
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VFIO-group is held by KVM.
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Groups:
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KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP
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KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP attributes:
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KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ADD: Add a VFIO group to VFIO-KVM device tracking
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KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL: Remove a VFIO group from VFIO-KVM device tracking
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For each, kvm_device_attr.addr points to an int32_t file descriptor
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for the VFIO group.
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