[PATCH v1 1/1] usertools/devbind: add documentation for no-IOMMU mode

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Mon Dec 2 10:35:01 CET 2024


Support for `--noiommu-mode` flag was added, but documentation for it was
not. Add documentation for the flag.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst b/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst
index 841615570f..e010d4b7df 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/devbind.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ OPTIONS
       Use this flag to change ownership to the specified user and group, so that
       devices bound to VFIO would be usable by unprivileged users.
 
+* ``--noiommu-mode``
+
+      When using vfio-pci driver on a system with no IOMMU, this flag should be used to
+      enable unsafe no-IOMMU mode for vfio-pci driver.
+
 
 .. warning::
 
-- 
2.43.5



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