The current state for the setup script is that the vfio kernel driver
will be preferred against the uio_pci_generic driver only if an IOMMU is
present in the system. This is checked by looking for any IOMMU groups
in sysfs.
In case of vfio no-IOMMU driver, there are no IOMMU groups when loading
the vfio modules. The IOMMU groups are created when the PCI devices get
bound to the vfio-pci driver. Thus, even though the vfio driver is
loaded, the setup script will prefer to use the uio_pci_generic kernel
driver. This patch changes this behavior.
In order to support vfio no-IOMMU mode, the setup script will be
checking if the vfio module is loaded with parameter
"enable_unsafe_noiommu_mode". In other case, it will be falling back to
the uio_pci_generic driver.
Change-Id: I1e8317bc4e3d6af4ba8a9e0c51175c9f4190f47b
Signed-off-by: Nikos Dragazis <ndragazis@arrikto.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.gerrithub.io/c/441062
Reviewed-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
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