linux_dsm_epyc7002/include/uapi
Alexey Kardashevskiy a32295c612 vfio-pci: Allow mapping MSIX BAR
By default VFIO disables mapping of MSIX BAR to the userspace as
the userspace may program it in a way allowing spurious interrupts;
instead the userspace uses the VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl.
In order to eliminate guessing from the userspace about what is
mmapable, VFIO also advertises a sparse list of regions allowed to mmap.

This works fine as long as the system page size equals to the MSIX
alignment requirement which is 4KB. However with a bigger page size
the existing code prohibits mapping non-MSIX parts of a page with MSIX
structures so these parts have to be emulated via slow reads/writes on
a VFIO device fd. If these emulated bits are accessed often, this has
serious impact on performance.

This allows mmap of the entire BAR containing MSIX vector table.

This removes the sparse capability for PCI devices as it becomes useless.

As the userspace needs to know for sure whether mmapping of the MSIX
vector containing data can succeed, this adds a new capability -
VFIO_REGION_INFO_CAP_MSIX_MAPPABLE - which explicitly tells the userspace
that the entire BAR can be mmapped.

This does not touch the MSIX mangling in the BAR read/write handlers as
we are doing this just to enable direct access to non MSIX registers.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
[aw - fixup whitespace, trim function name]
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2017-12-20 10:05:06 -07:00
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asm-generic bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type 2017-12-05 15:02:40 +01:00
drm main drm pull request for v4.15 2017-11-15 20:42:10 -08:00
linux vfio-pci: Allow mapping MSIX BAR 2017-12-20 10:05:06 -07:00
misc License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
mtd License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
rdma Updates for 4.15 kernel merge window 2017-11-15 14:54:53 -08:00
scsi License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
sound tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers 2017-11-04 09:27:46 +01:00
video License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
xen License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00