From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, Alex.Williamson@redhat.com,
agraf@suse.de, gleb@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
marc.zyngier@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: device: add simple registration mechanism for kvm_device_ops
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:10:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140731121022.GH11610@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1404225918-8903-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 03:45:15PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> kvm_ioctl_create_device currently has knowledge of all the device types
> and their associated ops. This is fairly inflexible when adding support
> for new in-kernel device emulations, so move what we currently have out
> into a table, which can support dynamic registration of ops by new
> drivers for virtual hardware.
>
> I didn't try to port all current drivers over, as it's not always clear
> which initialisation hook the ops should be registered from.
>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <Alex.Williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Alex Graf <agraf@suse.de>
> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-31 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-01 14:45 [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: device: add simple registration mechanism for kvm_device_ops Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: ARM: vgic: register kvm_device_ops dynamically Will Deacon
2014-07-09 16:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-09 16:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2014-07-31 12:10 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-07-31 13:25 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: s390: register flic ops dynamically Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: VFIO: register kvm_device_ops dynamically Will Deacon
2014-07-09 16:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-09 16:19 ` Alex Williamson
2014-07-09 16:47 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-09 16:56 ` Alex Williamson
2014-07-09 16:56 ` Alex Williamson
2014-07-02 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: device: add simple registration mechanism for kvm_device_ops Cornelia Huck
2014-07-02 9:32 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 10:18 ` Cornelia Huck
2014-07-31 12:10 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
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