Re: [PATCH v1] s390/vfio-ap: Signal eventfd when guest AP configuration is changed

Anthony Krowiak
2025-01-17T12:42:10Z

On 1/17/25 3:30 AM, Harald Freudenberger wrote:
> On 2025-01-16 17:46, Anthony Krowiak wrote:
>>>
>>> Rorie, this is to inform listeners on the host of the guest.
>>> The guest itself already sees this "inside" with uevents triggered
>>> by the AP bus code.
>>>
>>> Do you have a consumer for these events?
>>
>> There is a series of QEMU patches that register a notification
>> handler for this
>> event. When that handler gets called, it generates and queues a CRW
>> to the guest
>> indicating there is event information pending which will cause the AP
>> bus driver
>> to get notified of the AP configuration change via its ap_bus_cfg_chg
>> notifier call.
>>
>> The QEMU series can be seen at:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/7171c479-5cb4-4748-ba37-da4cf2fac35b@linux.ibm.com/T/
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> A Krowiak
>
> Ok, so this way the AP bus of the guest finally get's it's config
> change callback invoked :-)

Yes, and it happens pretty quickly; at least in the test environment.