Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap MSI-X table if EEH is supported

2016-01-06 Thread Yongji Xie
On 2016/1/5 5:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 14:07 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 16:50 +0800, Yongji Xie wrote: Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap MSI-X table in case that user get to touch this directly. However, EEH mechanism can

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap MSI-X table if EEH is supported

2016-01-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 14:07 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 16:50 +0800, Yongji Xie wrote: > > Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap MSI-X > > table in case that user get to touch this directly. > > > > However, EEH mechanism can ensure that a given pci device > >

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap MSI-X table if EEH is supported

2016-01-04 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 16:50 +0800, Yongji Xie wrote: > Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap MSI-X > table in case that user get to touch this directly. > > However, EEH mechanism can ensure that a given pci device > can only shoot the MSIs assigned for its PE. So we think > it's safe

[RFC PATCH v2 3/3] vfio-pci: Allow to mmap MSI-X table if EEH is supported

2015-12-31 Thread Yongji Xie
Current vfio-pci implementation disallows to mmap MSI-X table in case that user get to touch this directly. However, EEH mechanism can ensure that a given pci device can only shoot the MSIs assigned for its PE. So we think it's safe to expose the MSI-X table to userspace because the exposed MSI-X