[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Thu Oct 1 11:16:23 CEST 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:44:28AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:40:16PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > And for what, to prevent
> > > root from touching memory via dma that they can access in a million other
> > > ways?
> > 
> > So one can be reasonably sure a kernel oops is not a result of a
> > userspace bug.
> 
> Actually, I thought about this overnight, and  it should be possible to
> drive it securely from userspace, without hypervisor changes.
> 
> See
> 
> https://mid.gmane.org/20151001104505-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com

Ouch, looks like gmane doesn't do https. Sorry, this is the correct
link:

http://mid.gmane.org/20151001104505-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com

> 
> 
> > -- 
> > MST


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