On 20/12/2017 02:47, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> - if we foresee having more IOMMU devices in KVM, let's rename >> KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_SET_SPAPR_TCE to KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ATTACH_IOMMU and >> add a new function >> >> int iommu_memory_region_get_kvm_fd(IOMMUMemoryRegion *iommu); >> >> that requires no object-type check in VFIO. > > This is how it started and the comment was that this KVM fd needs to have a > well defined semantic which I struggle to provide.
I don't think the definition should be anything more than "it can be passed to KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ATTACH_IOMMU". I'll discuss it with Alex later today. Paolo