From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757893AbYLDS12 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:27:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756002AbYLDS1J (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:27:09 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:52104 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756200AbYLDS1H (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:27:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:05:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Joerg Roedel Cc: avi@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, weidong.han@intel.com, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] add frontend implementation for the IOMMU API Message-ID: <20081204180525.GA30024@suse.de> References: <20081204172142.GH12816@amd.com> <1228411736-22644-4-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1228411736-22644-4-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:28:48PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > This API can be used by KVM for accessing different types of IOMMUs to > do device passthrough to guests. Beside that this API can also be used > by device drivers to map non-linear host memory into dma-linear > addresses to prevent sgather-gather DMA. UIO may be another user for > this API. > > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman