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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "Zhao, Yan Y" <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 14/15] vfio: Add ioctls for device cdev using iommufd
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:24:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+48uXLCb1YlA+a6@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DS0PR11MB752979FC4A54F6459D7A162AC3A09@DS0PR11MB7529.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:28:33AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:

> However, I need to admit, your fix can reduce the reference of iommufd file.
> This may avoid file reference counting overflow if there are multiple devices
> assigned to an application. I'm not sure how possible it is though. 😊 I'll see
> if Alex or Jason have any preference.

Please write refcounting in a way that is easy to understand and don't
try to be clever.

Every stored pointer to a ref object should hold its own ref.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-13 15:13 [PATCH v3 00/15] Add vfio_device cdev for iommufd support Yi Liu
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] vfio: Allocate per device file structure Yi Liu
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] vfio: Refine vfio file kAPIs Yi Liu
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] vfio: Accept vfio device file in the driver facing kAPI Yi Liu
2023-02-13 23:21   ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-14  2:19     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-13 23:43   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-14  2:02     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-14  7:19       ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-17 10:55         ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-17 15:59           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-18  2:54             ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-15 12:38       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-15 14:43         ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-15 14:46           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-15 15:32             ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-15 17:04               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-15 17:19                 ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-15 17:33                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] kvm/vfio: Rename kvm_vfio_group to prepare for accepting vfio device fd Yi Liu
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] kvm/vfio: Accept vfio device file from userspace Yi Liu
2023-02-14 22:26   ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-14 23:25     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-14 23:42       ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-15  0:17         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-15  0:27           ` Timothy Pearson
2023-02-17  5:34           ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-17  5:48             ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-17 16:00               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-15  7:37       ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] vfio: Pass struct vfio_device_file * to vfio_device_open/close() Yi Liu
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] vfio: Block device access via device fd until device is opened Yi Liu
2023-02-14 22:46   ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-15  6:12     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] vfio: Add infrastructure for bind_iommufd from userspace Yi Liu
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] vfio-iommufd: Add detach_ioas support for physical VFIO devices Yi Liu
2023-02-14  8:05   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] vfio-iommufd: Add detach_ioas for emulated " Yi Liu
2023-02-14  8:06   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] vfio: Add cdev_device_open_cnt to vfio_group Yi Liu
2023-02-14  8:18   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] vfio: Make vfio_device_open() single open for device cdev path Yi Liu
2023-02-14  8:25   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] vfio: Add cdev for vfio_device Yi Liu
2023-02-14  8:32   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-14  8:35     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] vfio: Add ioctls for device cdev using iommufd Yi Liu
2023-02-14  8:53   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-14 23:39   ` Yan Zhao
2023-02-15  2:04     ` Tian, Kevin
2023-02-15  7:37       ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-16  8:24   ` Yan Zhao
2023-02-16  9:10     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-16  9:23       ` Yan Zhao
2023-02-16 10:28         ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-16 14:24           ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-02-13 15:13 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] vfio: Compile group optionally Yi Liu
2023-02-13 19:47 ` [PATCH v3 00/15] Add vfio_device cdev for iommufd support Alex Williamson
2023-02-13 23:21   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-14 15:15     ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-14 15:54       ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-14 16:48         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-02-14  1:55   ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-14 15:47     ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-15  7:54       ` Liu, Yi L
2023-02-15 20:09         ` Alex Williamson
2023-02-16  2:53           ` Liu, Yi L

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