Re: [PATCH kernel v6 18/20] vfio_pci: Allow mapping extra regions

2018-12-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:43:58AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > [cc +kvm, +lkml] > > Sorry, just noticed these are only visible on ppc lists or for those > directly cc'd. vfio's official development list is the kvm list. I'll > let spapr specific changes get away without copying this list, bu

Re: [PATCH kernel v6 18/20] vfio_pci: Allow mapping extra regions

2018-12-19 Thread Alex Williamson
[cc +kvm, +lkml] Sorry, just noticed these are only visible on ppc lists or for those directly cc'd. vfio's official development list is the kvm list. I'll let spapr specific changes get away without copying this list, but changes like this really need to be visible to everyone. Thanks, Alex

[PATCH kernel v6 18/20] vfio_pci: Allow mapping extra regions

2018-12-19 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
So far we only allowed mapping of MMIO BARs to the userspace. However there are GPUs with on-board coherent RAM accessible via side channels which we also want to map to the userspace. The first client for this is NVIDIA V100 GPU with NVLink2 direct links to a POWER9 NPU-enabled CPU; such GPUs have