On 2017/10/6 21:31, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> Add two new ioctl for VFIO containers. VFIO_DEVICE_BIND_PROCESS creates a
> bond between a container and a process address space, identified by a
> device-specific ID named PASID. This allows the device to target DMA
> transactions at the process virtual addresses without a need for mapping
> and unmapping buffers explicitly in the IOMMU. The process page tables are
> shared with the IOMMU, and mechanisms such as PCI ATS/PRI may be used to
> handle faults. VFIO_DEVICE_UNBIND_PROCESS removed a bond identified by a
> PASID.
> 

How about hide bind/unbind into ioctl(VFIO_SET_IOMMU)? 
e.g always bind to current process in SET_IOMMU.

Not sure about the real use case.

> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 243 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h       |  69 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 


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