Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/7] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 02/29/2016 06:06 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface
> on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with
> vfio_container_ioctl().  That's a poorly designed interface with unclear
> semantics about exactly what can be operated on.
>
> In particular it operates on a single vfio container internally (hence the
> name), but takes an address space and group id, from which it deduces the
> container in a rather roundabout way.  groupids are something that code
> outside vfio shouldn't even be aware of.
>
> This patch creates new interfaces for EEH operations.  Internally we
> have vfio_eeh_container_op() which takes a VFIOContainer object
> directly.  For external use we have vfio_eeh_as_ok() which determines
> if an AddressSpace is usable for EEH (at present this means it has a
> single container and at most a single group attached), and
> vfio_eeh_as_op() which will perform an operation on an AddressSpace in
> the unambiguous case, and otherwise returns an error.
>
> This interface still isn't great, but it's enough of an improvement to
> allow a number of cleanups in other places.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>




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Alexey