From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] PCI: Introduce new device binding path using pci_dev.driver_override Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:25:27 +0200 Message-ID: <537C62F7.10409@suse.de> References: <20140520145136.28232.90707.stgit@bling.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kim.phillips-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, stuart.yoder-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, libvir-list-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, tech-lrHrjnjw1UfHK3s98zE1ajGjJy/sRE9J@public.gmane.org, kvmarm-FPEHb7Xf0XXUo1n7N8X6UoWGPAHP3yOg@public.gmane.org, christoffer.dall-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org To: Alex Williamson , bhelgaas-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-pci-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140520145136.28232.90707.stgit-xdHQ/5r00wBBDLzU/O5InQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 20.05.14 16:53, Alex Williamson wrote: > The driver_override field allows us to specify the driver for a device > rather than relying on the driver to provide a positive match of the > device. This shortcuts the existing process of looking up the vendor > and device ID, adding them to the driver new_id, binding the device, > then removing the ID, but it also provides a couple advantages. > > First, the above existing process allows the driver to bind to any > device matching the new_id for the window where it's enabled. This is > often not desired, such as the case of trying to bind a single device > to a meta driver like pci-stub or vfio-pci. Using driver_override we > can do this deterministically using: > > echo pci-stub > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver_override > echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver/unbind > echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_probe > > Previously we could not invoke drivers_probe after adding a device > to new_id for a driver as we get non-deterministic behavior whether > the driver we intend or the standard driver will claim the device. > Now it becomes a deterministic process, only the driver matching > driver_override will probe the device. > > To return the device to the standard driver, we simply clear the > driver_override and reprobe the device: > > echo > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver_override > echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver/unbind > echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_probe > > Another advantage to this approach is that we can specify a driver > override to force a specific binding or prevent any binding. For > instance when an IOMMU group is exposed to userspace through VFIO > we require that all devices within that group are owned by VFIO. > However, devices can be hot-added into an IOMMU group, in which case > we want to prevent the device from binding to any driver (override > driver = "none") or perhaps have it automatically bind to vfio-pci. > With driver_override it's a simple matter for this field to be set > internally when the device is first discovered to prevent driver > matches. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf I suppose Konrad's RB stays as well? Alex