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2016-01-27vfio/noiommu: Don't use iommu_present() to track fake groupsAlex Williamson
Using iommu_present() to determine whether an IOMMU group is real or fake has some problems. First, apparently Power systems don't register an IOMMU on the device bus, so the groups and containers get marked as noiommu and then won't bind to their actual IOMMU driver. Second, I expect we'll run into the same issue as we try to support vGPUs through vfio, since they're likely to emulate this behavior of creating an IOMMU group on a virtual device and then providing a vfio IOMMU backend tailored to the sort of isolation they provide, which won't necessarily be fully compatible with the IOMMU API. The solution here is to use the existing iommudata interface to IOMMU groups, which allows us to easily identify the fake groups we've created for noiommu purposes. The iommudata we set is purely arbitrary since we're only comparing the address, so we use the address of the noiommu switch itself. Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Tested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <sshukla@mvista.com> Fixes: 03a76b60f8ba ("vfio: Include No-IOMMU mode") Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-12-21vfio: Include No-IOMMU modeAlex Williamson
There is really no way to safely give a user full access to a DMA capable device without an IOMMU to protect the host system. There is also no way to provide DMA translation, for use cases such as device assignment to virtual machines. However, there are still those users that want userspace drivers even under those conditions. The UIO driver exists for this use case, but does not provide the degree of device access and programming that VFIO has. In an effort to avoid code duplication, this introduces a No-IOMMU mode for VFIO. This mode requires building VFIO with CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU and enabling the "enable_unsafe_noiommu_mode" option on the vfio driver. This should make it very clear that this mode is not safe. Additionally, CAP_SYS_RAWIO privileges are necessary to work with groups and containers using this mode. Groups making use of this support are named /dev/vfio/noiommu-$GROUP and can only make use of the special VFIO_NOIOMMU_IOMMU for the container. Use of this mode, specifically binding a device without a native IOMMU group to a VFIO bus driver will taint the kernel and should therefore not be considered supported. This patch includes no-iommu support for the vfio-pci bus driver only. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-12-04Revert: "vfio: Include No-IOMMU mode"Alex Williamson
Revert commit 033291eccbdb ("vfio: Include No-IOMMU mode") due to lack of a user. This was originally intended to fill a need for the DPDK driver, but uptake has been slow so rather than support an unproven kernel interface revert it and revisit when userspace catches up. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-11-21vfio: fix a warning messageDan Carpenter
The first argument to the WARN() macro has to be a condition. I'm sort of disappointed that this code doesn't generate a compiler warning. I guess -Wformat-extra-args doesn't work in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-11-04vfio: Include No-IOMMU modeAlex Williamson
There is really no way to safely give a user full access to a DMA capable device without an IOMMU to protect the host system. There is also no way to provide DMA translation, for use cases such as device assignment to virtual machines. However, there are still those users that want userspace drivers even under those conditions. The UIO driver exists for this use case, but does not provide the degree of device access and programming that VFIO has. In an effort to avoid code duplication, this introduces a No-IOMMU mode for VFIO. This mode requires building VFIO with CONFIG_VFIO_NOIOMMU and enabling the "enable_unsafe_noiommu_mode" option on the vfio driver. This should make it very clear that this mode is not safe. Additionally, CAP_SYS_RAWIO privileges are necessary to work with groups and containers using this mode. Groups making use of this support are named /dev/vfio/noiommu-$GROUP and can only make use of the special VFIO_NOIOMMU_IOMMU for the container. Use of this mode, specifically binding a device without a native IOMMU group to a VFIO bus driver will taint the kernel and should therefore not be considered supported. This patch includes no-iommu support for the vfio-pci bus driver only. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-11-04vfio: Fix bug in vfio_device_get_from_name()Joerg Roedel
The vfio_device_get_from_name() function might return a non-NULL pointer, when called with a device name that is not found in the list. This causes undefined behavior, in my case calling an invalid function pointer later on: kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800cb3ddc08 [...] Call Trace: [<ffffffffa03bd733>] ? vfio_group_fops_unl_ioctl+0x253/0x410 [vfio] [<ffffffff811efc4d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2cd/0x4c0 [<ffffffff811f9657>] ? __fget+0x77/0xb0 [<ffffffff811efeb9>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90 [<ffffffff81001bb0>] ? syscall_return_slowpath+0x50/0x130 [<ffffffff8167f776>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x75 Fix the issue by returning NULL when there is no device with the requested name in the list. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+ Fixes: 4bc94d5dc95d ("vfio: Fix lockdep issue") Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-10-27vfio: Whitelist PCI bridgesAlex Williamson
When determining whether a group is viable, we already allow devices bound to pcieport. Generalize this to include any PCI bridge device. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-07-24vfio: Fix lockdep issueAlex Williamson
When we open a device file descriptor, we currently have the following: vfio_group_get_device_fd() mutex_lock(&group->device_lock); open() ... if (ret) release() If we hit that error case, we call the backend driver release path, which for vfio-pci looks like this: vfio_pci_release() vfio_pci_disable() vfio_pci_try_bus_reset() vfio_pci_get_devs() vfio_device_get_from_dev() vfio_group_get_device() mutex_lock(&group->device_lock); Whoops, we've stumbled back onto group.device_lock and created a deadlock. There's a low likelihood of ever seeing this play out, but obviously it needs to be fixed. To do that we can use a reference to the vfio_device for vfio_group_get_device_fd() rather than holding the lock. There was a loop in this function, theoretically allowing multiple devices with the same name, but in practice we don't expect such a thing to happen and the code is already aborting from the loop with break on any sort of error rather than continuing and only parsing the first match anyway, so the loop was effectively unused already. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Fixes: 20f300175a1e ("vfio/pci: Fix racy vfio_device_get_from_dev() call") Reported-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
2015-06-09vfio/pci: Fix racy vfio_device_get_from_dev() callAlex Williamson
Testing the driver for a PCI device is racy, it can be all but complete in the release path and still report the driver as ours. Therefore we can't trust drvdata to be valid. This race can sometimes be seen when one port of a multifunction device is being unbound from the vfio-pci driver while another function is being released by the user and attempting a bus reset. The device in the remove path is found as a dependent device for the bus reset of the release path device, the driver is still set to vfio-pci, but the drvdata has already been cleared, resulting in a null pointer dereference. To resolve this, fix vfio_device_get_from_dev() to not take the dev_get_drvdata() shortcut and instead traverse through the iommu_group, vfio_group, vfio_device path to get a reference we can trust. Once we have that reference, we know the device isn't in transition and we can test to make sure the driver is still what we expect, so that we don't interfere with devices we don't own. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-05-01vfio: Fix runaway interruptible timeoutAlex Williamson
Commit 13060b64b819 ("vfio: Add and use device request op for vfio bus drivers") incorrectly makes use of an interruptible timeout. When interrupted, the signal remains pending resulting in subsequent timeouts occurring instantly. This makes the loop spin at a much higher rate than intended. Instead of making this completely non-interruptible, we can change this into a sort of interruptible-once behavior and use the "once" to log debug information. The driver API doesn't allow us to abort and return an error code. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Fixes: 13060b64b819 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0
2015-03-17vfio: Split virqfd into a separate module for vfio bus driversAlex Williamson
An unintended consequence of commit 42ac9bd18d4f ("vfio: initialize the virqfd workqueue in VFIO generic code") is that the vfio module is renamed to vfio_core so that it can include both vfio and virqfd. That's a user visible change that may break module loading scritps and it imposes eventfd support as a dependency on the core vfio code, which it's really not. virqfd is intended to be provided as a service to vfio bus drivers, so instead of wrapping it into vfio.ko, we can make it a stand-alone module toggled by vfio bus drivers. This has the additional benefit of removing initialization and exit from the core vfio code. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-03-16vfio: put off the allocation of "minor" in vfio_create_groupZhen Lei
The next code fragment "list_for_each_entry" is not depend on "minor". With this patch, the free of "minor" in "list_for_each_entry" can be reduced, and there is no functional change. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-03-16vfio: initialize the virqfd workqueue in VFIO generic codeAntonios Motakis
Now we have finally completely decoupled virqfd from VFIO_PCI. We can initialize it from the VFIO generic code, in order to safely use it from multiple independent VFIO bus drivers. Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: Baptiste Reynal <b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-02-10vfio: Add and use device request op for vfio bus driversAlex Williamson
When a request is made to unbind a device from a vfio bus driver, we need to wait for the device to become unused, ie. for userspace to release the device. However, we have a long standing TODO in the code to do something proactive to make that happen. To enable this, we add a request callback on the vfio bus driver struct, which is intended to signal the user through the vfio device interface to release the device. Instead of passively waiting for the device to become unused, we can now pester the user to give it up. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-02-06vfio: Tie IOMMU group reference to vfio groupAlex Williamson
Move the iommu_group reference from the device to the vfio_group. This ensures that the iommu_group persists as long as the vfio_group remains. This can be important if all of the device from an iommu_group are removed, but we still have an outstanding vfio_group reference; we can still walk the empty list of devices. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2015-02-06vfio: Add device tracking during unbindAlex Williamson
There's a small window between the vfio bus driver calling vfio_del_group_dev() and the device being completely unbound where the vfio group appears to be non-viable. This creates a race for users like QEMU/KVM where the kvm-vfio module tries to get an external reference to the group in order to match and release an existing reference, while the device is potentially being removed from the vfio bus driver. If the group is momentarily non-viable, kvm-vfio may not be able to release the group reference until VM shutdown, making the group unusable until that point. Bridge the gap between device removal from the group and completion of the driver unbind by tracking it in a list. The device is added to the list before the bus driver reference is released and removed using the existing unbind notifier. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2014-05-27driver core: dev_set_drvdata can no longer failJean Delvare
So there is no point in checking its return value, which will soon disappear. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-26vfio: Add external user check extension interfaceAlex Williamson
This lets us check extensions, particularly VFIO_DMA_CC_IOMMU using the external user interface, allowing KVM to probe IOMMU coherency. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-12-19vfio: Convert control interface to misc driverAlex Williamson
This change allows us to support module auto loading using devname support in userspace tools. With this, /dev/vfio/vfio will always be present and opening it will cause the vfio module to load. This should avoid needing to configure the system to statically load vfio in order to get libvirt to correctly detect support for it. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-08-22vfio: Add O_CLOEXEC flag to vfio device fdAlex Williamson
Add the default O_CLOEXEC flag for device file descriptors. This is generally considered a safer option as it allows the user a race free option to decide whether file descriptors are inherited across exec, with the default avoiding file descriptor leaks. Reported-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-08-22vfio: use get_unused_fd_flags(0) instead of get_unused_fd()Yann Droneaud
Macro get_unused_fd() is used to allocate a file descriptor with default flags. Those default flags (0) can be "unsafe": O_CLOEXEC must be used by default to not leak file descriptor across exec(). Instead of macro get_unused_fd(), functions anon_inode_getfd() or get_unused_fd_flags() should be used with flags given by userspace. If not possible, flags should be set to O_CLOEXEC to provide userspace with a default safe behavor. In a further patch, get_unused_fd() will be removed so that new code start using anon_inode_getfd() or get_unused_fd_flags() with correct flags. This patch replaces calls to get_unused_fd() with equivalent call to get_unused_fd_flags(0) to preserve current behavor for existing code. The hard coded flag value (0) should be reviewed on a per-subsystem basis, and, if possible, set to O_CLOEXEC. Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1376327678.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-08-05vfio: add external user supportAlexey Kardashevskiy
VFIO is designed to be used via ioctls on file descriptors returned by VFIO. However in some situations support for an external user is required. The first user is KVM on PPC64 (SPAPR TCE protocol) which is going to use the existing VFIO groups for exclusive access in real/virtual mode on a host to avoid passing map/unmap requests to the user space which would made things pretty slow. The protocol includes: 1. do normal VFIO init operation: - opening a new container; - attaching group(s) to it; - setting an IOMMU driver for a container. When IOMMU is set for a container, all groups in it are considered ready to use by an external user. 2. User space passes a group fd to an external user. The external user calls vfio_group_get_external_user() to verify that: - the group is initialized; - IOMMU is set for it. If both checks passed, vfio_group_get_external_user() increments the container user counter to prevent the VFIO group from disposal before KVM exits. 3. The external user calls vfio_external_user_iommu_id() to know an IOMMU ID. PPC64 KVM uses it to link logical bus number (LIOBN) with IOMMU ID. 4. When the external KVM finishes, it calls vfio_group_put_external_user() to release the VFIO group. This call decrements the container user counter. Everything gets released. The "vfio: Limit group opens" patch is also required for the consistency. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-07-24vfio: Ignore sprurious notifiesAlex Williamson
Remove debugging WARN_ON if we get a spurious notify for a group that no longer exists. No reports of anyone hitting this, but it would likely be a race and not a bug if they did. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-07-24vfio: Don't overreact to DEL_DEVICEAlex Williamson
BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE triggers IOMMU drivers to remove devices from their iommu group, but there's really nothing we can do about it at this point. If the device is in use, then the vfio sub-driver will block the device_del from completing until it's released. If the device is not in use or not owned by a vfio sub-driver, then we really don't care that it's being removed. The current code can be triggered just by unloading an sr-iov driver (ex. igb) while the VFs are attached to vfio-pci because it makes an incorrect assumption about the ordering of driver remove callbacks vs the DEL_DEVICE notification. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-07-10Merge tag 'vfio-v3.11' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds
Pull vfio updates from Alex Williamson: "Largely hugepage support for vfio/type1 iommu and surrounding cleanups and fixes" * tag 'vfio-v3.11' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio/type1: Fix leak on error path vfio: Limit group opens vfio/type1: Fix missed frees and zero sized removes vfio: fix documentation vfio: Provide module option to disable vfio_iommu_type1 hugepage support vfio: hugepage support for vfio_iommu_type1 vfio: Convert type1 iommu to use rbtree
2013-06-25vfio: Limit group opensAlex Williamson
vfio_group_fops_open attempts to limit concurrent sessions by disallowing opens once group->container is set. This really doesn't do what we want and allow for inconsistent behavior, for instance a group can be opened twice, then a container set giving the user two file descriptors to the group. But then it won't allow more to be opened. There's not much reason to have the group opened multiple times since most access is through devices or the container, so complete what the original code intended and only allow a single instance. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-06-20powerpc/vfio: Implement IOMMU driver for VFIOAlexey Kardashevskiy
VFIO implements platform independent stuff such as a PCI driver, BAR access (via read/write on a file descriptor or direct mapping when possible) and IRQ signaling. The platform dependent part includes IOMMU initialization and handling. This implements an IOMMU driver for VFIO which does mapping/unmapping pages for the guest IO and provides information about DMA window (required by a POWER guest). Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-05vfio: fix crash on rmmodAlexey Kardashevskiy
devtmpfs_delete_node() calls devnode() callback with mode==NULL but vfio still tries to write there. The patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-04-30vfio: Set container device modeAlex Williamson
Minor 0 is the VFIO container device (/dev/vfio/vfio). On it's own the container does not provide a user with any privileged access. It only supports API version check and extension check ioctls. Only by attaching a VFIO group to the container does it gain any access. Set the mode of the container to allow access. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-04-29vfio: Use down_reads to protect iommu disconnectsAlex Williamson
If a group or device is released or a container is unset from a group it can race against file ops on the container. Protect these with down_reads to allow concurrent users. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-04-25vfio: Convert container->group_lock to rwsemAlex Williamson
All current users are writers, maintaining current mutual exclusion. This lets us add read users next. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-03-11VFIO: Wrapper for getting reference to vfio_deviceVijay Mohan Pandarathil
- Added vfio_device_get_from_dev() as wrapper to get reference to vfio_device from struct device. - Added vfio_device_data() as a wrapper to get device_data from vfio_device. Signed-off-by: Vijay Mohan Pandarathil <vijaymohan.pandarathil@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-02-27vfio: convert to idr_alloc()Tejun Heo
Convert to the much saner new idr interface. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-14vfio: whitelist pcieportAlex Williamson
pcieport does nice things like manage AER and we know it doesn't do DMA or expose any user accessible devices on the host. It also keeps the Memory, I/O, and Busmaster bits enabled, which is pretty handy when trying to use anyting below it. Devices owned by pcieport cannot be given to users via vfio, but we can tolerate them not being owned by vfio-pci. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2013-02-14vfio: Protect vfio_dev_present against device_delAlex Williamson
vfio_dev_present is meant to give us a wait_event callback so that we can block removing a device from vfio until it becomes unused. The root of this check depends on being able to get the iommu group from the device. Unfortunately if the BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE notifier has fired then the device-group reference is no longer searchable and we fail the lookup. We don't need to go to such extents for this though. We have a reference to the device, from which we can acquire a reference to the group. We can then use the group reference to search for the device and properly block removal. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-12-07VFIO: use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to dev->driverJiang Liu
Comments from dev_driver_string(), /* dev->driver can change to NULL underneath us because of unbinding, * so be careful about accessing it. */ So use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to dev->driver field. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-12-07VFIO: unregister IOMMU notifier on error recovery pathJiang Liu
On error recovery path in function vfio_create_group(), it should unregister the IOMMU notifier for the new VFIO group. Otherwise it may cause invalid memory access later when handling bus notifications. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-09-26switch simple cases of fget_light to fdgetAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26switch vfio_group_set_container() to fget_light()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-22vfio: grab vfio_device reference *before* exposing the sucker via fd_install()Al Viro
It's not critical (anymore) since another thread closing the file will block on ->device_lock before it gets to dropping the final reference, but it's definitely cleaner that way... Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-22vfio: get rid of vfio_device_put()/vfio_group_get_device* racesAl Viro
we really need to make sure that dropping the last reference happens under the group->device_lock; otherwise a loop (under device_lock) might find vfio_device instance that is being freed right now, has already dropped the last reference and waits on device_lock to exclude the sucker from the list. Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-22vfio: get rid of open-coding kref_put_mutexAl Viro
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-22vfio: don't dereference after kfree...Al Viro
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-31vfio: Type1 IOMMU implementationAlex Williamson
This VFIO IOMMU backend is designed primarily for AMD-Vi and Intel VT-d hardware, but is potentially usable by anything supporting similar mapping functionality. We arbitrarily call this a Type1 backend for lack of a better name. This backend has no IOVA or host memory mapping restrictions for the user and is optimized for relatively static mappings. Mapped areas are pinned into system memory. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2012-07-31vfio: VFIO coreAlex Williamson
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>