On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 13:05 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > symbol_get() won't try to load a module; it'll just fail. This is what > you want, since they must have vfio in the kernel to get a valid fd... Ok, cool. I suppose what we want here Alexey is slightly higher level, something like: vfio_validate_iommu_id(file, iommu_id) Which verifies that the file that was passed in is allowed to use that iommu_id. That's a simple and flexible interface (ie, it will work even if we support multiple iommu IDs in the future for a vfio, for example for DDW windows etc...), the logic to know about the ID remains in qemu, this is strictly a validation call. That way we also don't have to expose the containing vfio struct etc... just that simple function. Alex, any objection ? Do we need to make it a get/put interface instead ? vfio_validate_and_use_iommu(file, iommu_id); vfio_release_iommu(file, iommu_id); To ensure that the resource remains owned by the process until KVM is closed as well ? Or do we want to register with VFIO with a callback so that VFIO can call us if it needs us to give it up ? Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
