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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c549143bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=================== +VFIO virtual device +=================== + +Device types supported: + + - KVM_DEV_TYPE_VFIO + +Only one VFIO instance may be created per VM. The created device +tracks VFIO files (group or device) in use by the VM and features +of those groups/devices important to the correctness and acceleration +of the VM. As groups/devices are enabled and disabled for use by the +VM, KVM should be updated about their presence. When registered with +KVM, a reference to the VFIO file is held by KVM. + +Groups: + KVM_DEV_VFIO_FILE + alias: KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP + +KVM_DEV_VFIO_FILE attributes: + KVM_DEV_VFIO_FILE_ADD: Add a VFIO file (group/device) to VFIO-KVM device + tracking + + kvm_device_attr.addr points to an int32_t file descriptor for the + VFIO file. + + KVM_DEV_VFIO_FILE_DEL: Remove a VFIO file (group/device) from VFIO-KVM + device tracking + + kvm_device_attr.addr points to an int32_t file descriptor for the + VFIO file. + +KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP (legacy kvm device group restricted to the handling of VFIO group fd): + KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ADD: same as KVM_DEV_VFIO_FILE_ADD for group fd only + + KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL: same as KVM_DEV_VFIO_FILE_DEL for group fd only + + KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_SET_SPAPR_TCE: attaches a guest visible TCE table + allocated by sPAPR KVM. + kvm_device_attr.addr points to a struct:: + + struct kvm_vfio_spapr_tce { + __s32 groupfd; + __s32 tablefd; + }; + + where: + + - @groupfd is a file descriptor for a VFIO group; + - @tablefd is a file descriptor for a TCE table allocated via + KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE. + +The FILE/GROUP_ADD operation above should be invoked prior to accessing the +device file descriptor via VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD in order to support +drivers which require a kvm pointer to be set in their .open_device() +callback. It is the same for device file descriptor via character device +open which gets device access via VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD. For such file +descriptors, FILE_ADD should be invoked before VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_IOMMUFD +to support the drivers mentioned in prior sentence as well. |