Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: PPC: Add support for IOMMU in-kernel handling | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:47:29 +1000 |
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On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:28 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > Just out of curiosity - would not get_file() and fput_atomic() on a > group's > > file* do the right job instead of vfio_group_add_external_user() and > > vfio_group_del_external_user()? > > I was thinking that too. Grabbing a file reference would certainly be > the usual way of handling this sort of thing.
But that wouldn't prevent the group ownership to be returned to the kernel or another user would it ?
Ben.
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