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Kernel access is the mode that VFIO "mdevs" use. In this case there is no
struct device and no IOMMU connection. iommufd acts as a record keeper for
accesses and returns the actual struct pages back to the caller to use
however they need. eg with kmap or the DMA API.

Each caller must create a struct iommufd_access with
iommufd_access_create(), similar to how iommufd_device_bind() works. Using
this struct the caller can access blocks of IOVA using
iommufd_access_pin_pages() or iommufd_access_rw().

Callers must provide a callback that immediately unpins any IOVA being
used within a range. This happens if userspace unmaps the IOVA under the
pin.

The implementation forwards the access requests directly to the iopt
infrastructure that manages the iopt_pages_access.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/14-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang <lixiao.yang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>