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authorVarun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com>2013-05-09 20:47:58 (GMT)
committerFleming Andrew-AFLEMING <AFLEMING@freescale.com>2013-05-10 19:41:24 (GMT)
commitd109d303d7ee036bacb7f9d0d1559b3bbd31c601 (patch)
tree81022174b9fba7a2413de507cca54b55a77acb0e /drivers/iommu
parent0f480b86856e5840bab9b96b36346ca0a145404c (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-d109d303d7ee036bacb7f9d0d1559b3bbd31c601.tar.xz
Subject: [PATCH v5] Support for dummy vfio iommu driver.
This is primarily required for supporting vfio direct device assignment on platforms that don't have a hardware IOMMU. Signed-off-by: Varun Sethi <Varun.Sethi@freescale.com> Change-Id: Id3e968a7c4110fe392354b053112e2dc083adebd Reviewed-on: http://git.am.freescale.net:8181/2401 Reviewed-by: Wood Scott-B07421 <scottwood@freescale.com> Reviewed-by: Yoder Stuart-B08248 <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Reviewed-by: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com> Reviewed-by: Fleming Andrew-AFLEMING <AFLEMING@freescale.com> Tested-by: Fleming Andrew-AFLEMING <AFLEMING@freescale.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
index f712da2..73c0716 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/iommu/Kconfig
@@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ config FSL_PAMU
help
Freescale PAMU support.
+config DUMMY_IOMMU
+ bool "Dummy IOMMU support for VFIO (UNSAFE)"
+ select IOMMU_API
+ help
+ WARNING: Dummy IOMMU driver, only for platforms that don't have a
+ hardware IOMMU. This option does allow you to use VFIO device
+ assignment, but does not provide DMA memory isolation.
+ Only use this if you trust all VFIO users completely.
+ The dummy vfio iommu driver can be enabled via
+ /sys/kernel/vfio_iommu_dummy/enable_iommu_dummy attribute.
+ If unsure, say N.
+
# MSM IOMMU support
config MSM_IOMMU
bool "MSM IOMMU Support"