As IOMMU groups are exposed to the user space by their numbers,
the user space can use them in various kernel APIs so the kernel
might need an API to find a group by its ID.
As an example, QEMU VFIO on PPC64 platform needs it to associate
a logical bus number (LIOBN) with a specific IOMMU group in
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 18:48 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> As IOMMU groups are exposed to the user space by their numbers,
> the user space can use them in various kernel APIs so the kernel
> might need an API to find a group by its ID.
>
> As an example, QEMU VFIO on PPC64 platform needs it
As IOMMU groups are exposed to the user space by their numbers,
the user space can use them in various kernel APIs so the kernel
might need an API to find a group by its ID.
As an example, QEMU VFIO on PPC64 platform needs it to associate
a logical bus number (LIOBN) with a specific IOMMU group in