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[142.68.26.201]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u20-20020a0cdd14000000b006581e82a628sm989437qvk.134.2023.09.18.09.02.58 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgg by wakko with local (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1qiGiA-0005k6-DG; Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:02:58 -0300 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:02:58 -0300 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Sean Christopherson Cc: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Marc Zyngier , Oliver Upton , Huacai Chen , Michael Ellerman , Anup Patel , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Christian Borntraeger , Janosch Frank , Claudio Imbrenda , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Paolo Bonzini , Tony Krowiak , Halil Pasic , Jason Herne , Harald Freudenberger , Alex Williamson , Andy Lutomirski , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Anish Ghulati , Venkatesh Srinivas , Andrew Thornton Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/26] vfio: KVM: Pass get/put helpers from KVM to VFIO, don't do circular lookup Message-ID: <20230918160258.GL13795@ziepe.ca> References: <20230916003118.2540661-1-seanjc@google.com> <20230916003118.2540661-6-seanjc@google.com> <20230918152110.GI13795@ziepe.ca> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 08:49:57AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 05:30:57PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > > Explicitly pass KVM's get/put helpers to VFIO when attaching a VM to > > > VFIO instead of having VFIO do a symbol lookup back into KVM. Having both > > > KVM and VFIO do symbol lookups increases the overall complexity and places > > > an unnecessary dependency on KVM (from VFIO) without adding any value. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson > > > --- > > > drivers/vfio/vfio.h | 2 ++ > > > drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------- > > > include/linux/vfio.h | 4 ++- > > > virt/kvm/vfio.c | 9 +++-- > > > 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) > > > > I don't mind this, but Christoph had disliked my prior attempt to do > > this with function pointers.. > > > > The get can be inlined, IIRC, what about putting a pointer to the put > > inside the kvm struct? > > That wouldn't allow us to achieve our goal, which is to hide the details of > "struct kvm" from VFIO (and the rest of the kernel). > What's the objection to handing VFIO a function pointer? Hmm, looks like it was this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0-v1-33906a626da1+16b0-vfio_kvm_no_group_jgg@nvidia.com Your rational looks a little better to me. > > The the normal kvm get/put don't have to exported symbols at all? > > The export of kvm_get_kvm_safe() can go away (I forgot to do that in this series), > but kvm_get_kvm() will hang around as it's needed by KVM sub-modules (PPC and x86), > KVMGT (x86), and drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c (no idea what to call that beast). My thought would be to keep it as an inline, there should be some way to do that without breaking your desire to hide the bulk of the kvm struct content. Like put the refcount as the first element in the struct and just don't ifdef it away?. Jason