MMIO device passthrough enables an OS in a virtual machine to directly
access a MMIO device in the host. It promises almost the native
performance, which is required in performance-critical scenarios of
ACRN.
HSM provides the following ioctls:
- Assign - ACRN_IOCTL_ASSIGN_MMIODEV
Pass data struct acrn_mmiodev from userspace to the hypervisor, and
inform the hypervisor to assign a MMIO device to a User VM.
- De-assign - ACRN_IOCTL_DEASSIGN_PCIDEV
Pass data struct acrn_mmiodev from userspace to the hypervisor, and
inform the hypervisor to de-assign a MMIO device from a User VM.
These new APIs will be used by user space code vm_assign_mmiodev and
vm_deassign_mmiodev in
https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c
Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fei Li <fei1.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210923084128.18902-2-fei1.li@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Shuo Liu
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