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[47.55.120.4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-891cfa623d0sm1012199885a.60.2025.10.22.10.53.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgg by wakko with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1vBd1j-00000002rQd-39Fm; Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:53:35 -0300 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:53:35 -0300 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Vipin Sharma Cc: Lukas Wunner , bhelgaas@google.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, dmatlack@google.com, graf@amazon.com, pratyush@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, chrisl@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, skhawaja@google.com, parav@nvidia.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, jrhilke@google.com, david@redhat.com, jgowans@amazon.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, epetron@amazon.de, junaids@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 15/21] PCI: Make PCI saved state and capability structs public Message-ID: <20251022175335.GF21554@ziepe.ca> References: <20251018000713.677779-1-vipinsh@google.com> <20251018000713.677779-16-vipinsh@google.com> <20251018223620.GD1034710.vipinsh@google.com> <20251018231126.GS3938986@ziepe.ca> <20251020234934.GB648579.vipinsh@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251020234934.GB648579.vipinsh@google.com> On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 04:49:34PM -0700, Vipin Sharma wrote: > May be serialization and deserialization logic can be put in PCI and > that way it can stay in PCI? This does seem better vfio should call something and get back a token it can store. Jason