linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] add frontend implementation for the IOMMU API

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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:05:25 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Cc:	avi@...hat.com, mingo@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	weidong.han@...el.com, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] add frontend implementation for the IOMMU API

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 <joerg.roedel@....com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

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