This patchset introduces support for an UNSAFE, no-IOMMU mode in the vhost-vdpa driver. When enabled, this mode provides no device isolation, no DMA translation, no host kernel protection, and cannot be used for device assignment to virtual machines. It requires RAWIO permissions and will taint the kernel. This mode requires enabling the "enable_vhost_vdpa_unsafe_noiommu_mode" option on the vhost-vdpa driver and also negotiate the feature flag VHOST_BACKEND_F_NOIOMMU. This mode would be useful to get better performance on specifice low end machines and can be leveraged by embedded platforms where applications run in controlled environment. First patch introduces a module parameter "enable_vhost_vdpa_unsafe_noiommu_mode", while the second patch introduces a feature flag VHOST_BACKEND_F_NOIOMMU to the vhost vdpa driver to support NO-IOMMU mode. This feature flag indicates to userspace that the driver can safely operate in NO-IOMMU mode. If the flag is not present, userspace should assume NO-IOMMU mode is unsupported and must not proceed. v1->v2: - Introduced new feature flag to vhost backend features for negotiating NO-IOMMU feature. Srujana Challa (2): vhost-vdpa: introduce module parameter for no-IOMMU mode vhost-vdpa: introduce NO-IOMMU backend feature bit drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.25.1
