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Commit edc5f445 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'vfio-v4.10-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio

Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - VFIO updates for v4.10 primarily include a new Mediated Device
   interface, which essentially allows software defined devices to be
   exposed to users through VFIO. The host vendor driver providing this
   virtual device polices, or mediates user access to the device.

   These devices often incorporate portions of real devices, for
   instance the primary initial users of this interface expose vGPUs
   which allow the user to map mediated devices, or mdevs, to a portion
   of a physical GPU. QEMU composes these mdevs into PCI representations
   using the existing VFIO user API. This enables both Intel KVM-GT
   support, which is also expected to arrive into Linux mainline during
   the v4.10 merge window, as well as NVIDIA vGPU, and also Channel I/O
   devices (aka CCW devices) for s390 virtualization support. (Kirti
   Wankhede, Neo Jia)

 - Drop unnecessary uses of pcibios_err_to_errno() (Ca...
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