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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst index 2d20dc561069..08b544212638 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vfio.rst @@ -39,3 +39,8 @@ KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP attributes: - @groupfd is a file descriptor for a VFIO group; - @tablefd is a file descriptor for a TCE table allocated via KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE. + +The GROUP_ADD operation above should be invoked prior to accessing the +device file descriptor via VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD in order to support +drivers which require a kvm pointer to be set in their .open_device() +callback. |