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Add a user-configurable option to control whether VFIO device MMIO BAR regions are DMA-mapped into the host IOMMU address space. This mapping is required for peer-to-peer DMA between devices (e.g. NVLink, RDMA NIC accessing GPU VRAM). However, iommufd on upstream kernels does not support mapping device MMIO pages (VM_PFNMAP), causing IOMMU_IOAS_MAP to fail with -EFAULT. Kernels with the NVIDIA PFNMAP workaround or future kernels with DMABUF-based mapping (IOMMU_IOAS_MAP_FILE) handle this correctly. The option defaults to `on` to preserve existing behavior. Users on vanilla kernels using iommufd should set `vfio_p2p_dma=off` to skip MMIO BAR DMA mapping. A validation check ensures that `x_nv_gpudirect_clique` (which depends on P2P DMA) cannot be used when `vfio_p2p_dma=off`. Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <bchen@crusoe.ai>