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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.8 01/11] linux-headers: update to 4.8-rc4
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.8 01/11] linux-headers: update to 4.8-rc4 |
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Mon, 5 Sep 2016 04:26:13 +0300 |
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:24:37AM +0800, Wei Xu wrote:
> Looks this patch includes quite a few misc changes from upstream, it's a bit
> confused to find out which one is related to virtio/vhost dmar support,
> while the upstream header shows a separate commit for new IOTLB api, is it
> possible to split this patch to dmar related one and a
> common pull from upstream?
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> upstream log:
> git log -p include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
> commit 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c
> Author: Jason Wang <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu Jun 23 02:04:32 2016 -0400
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> vhost: new device IOTLB API
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> This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could
> be used with userspace(qemu) implementation of DMA remapping to
> emulate an IOMMU for the guest.
You don't need to sync all headers. Just commit the ones that make
sense.
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