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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] vfio/type1/pci: IOMMU PFNMAP invalidation
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 04:55:17PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > I'm not if this makes sense, can't we arrange to directly trap the
> > IOMMU failure and route it into qemu if that is what is desired?
>
> Can't guarantee it, some systems wire that directly into their
> management processor so that they can "protect their users" regardless
> of whether they want or need it. Yay firmware first error handling,
> *sigh*. Thanks,

Sorry to be slightly out of topic - Alex, does this mean the general approach
of fault reporting from vfio to the userspace is not gonna work too?

Thanks,

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Peter Xu

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