On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 05:42:59PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > May be this is answered/discussed already, but why can't we use (vfio->fd, > offset) similar to the gmem_fd for KVM memory slot ? VFIO could prevent mmap > if the device is bound and also pervent bind, when there is a mapping ? This creates a mess of circular dependencies where kvm and vfio are both needing to hold references on each other's FDs. Jason