From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com,
Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/virtio: do not require IO permissions
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:56:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023045653.GA24135@___> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1571732503-30424-3-git-send-email-david.marchand@redhat.com>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:21:43AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On x86, iopl permissions are only available to root user (or users that
> have the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability).
> But those permissions are only needed when the virtio devices accesses
> are done with inb/outb instructions, which is when the device is bound
> to a UIO kernel module.
>
> So far, the virtio driver was refusing to register based on the check
> on IO permissions.
> This check does not make sense when binding the device to vfio.
>
> Now that the check on IO permissions has been abstracted in the ioport
> API, we can remove it on virtio side.
>
> We still need to call rte_eal_iopl_init() in the virtio constructor so
> that the interrupt thread inherits this permission in the case it could
> be used with UIO later.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Thanks,
Tiwei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-17 11:56 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Using virtio ethdev ports as non-root David Marchand
2019-10-17 11:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bus/pci: check IO permissions for UIO only David Marchand
2019-10-17 11:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/virtio: do not require IO permissions David Marchand
2019-10-18 8:16 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-18 8:33 ` David Marchand
2019-10-18 10:05 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-10-20 12:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Using virtio ethdev ports as non-root David Marchand
2019-10-20 12:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] bus/pci: check IO permissions for UIO only David Marchand
2019-10-20 12:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/virtio: do not require IO permissions David Marchand
2019-10-21 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Using virtio ethdev ports as non-root Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-22 8:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " David Marchand
2019-10-22 8:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] bus/pci: check IO permissions for UIO only David Marchand
2019-10-24 9:55 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-22 8:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/virtio: do not require IO permissions David Marchand
2019-10-23 4:56 ` Tiwei Bie [this message]
2019-10-25 10:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Using virtio ethdev ports as non-root David Marchand
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