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Introduce the DMA logging feature support in the vfio core layer. It includes the processing of the device start/stop/report DMA logging UAPIs and calling the relevant driver 'op' to do the work. Specifically, Upon start, the core translates the given input ranges into an interval tree, checks for unexpected overlapping, non aligned ranges and then pass the translated input to the driver for start tracking the given ranges. Upon report, the core translates the given input user space bitmap and page size into an IOVA kernel bitmap iterator. Then it iterates it and call the driver to set the corresponding bits for the dirtied pages in a specific IOVA range. Upon stop, the driver is called to stop the previous started tracking. The next patches from the series will introduce the mlx5 driver implementation for the logging ops. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908183448.195262-6-yishaih@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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