From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:9532 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729923AbhALQvI (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:51:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:50:19 +0100 From: Halil Pasic Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 10/15] s390/zcrypt: driver callback to indicate resource in use Message-ID: <20210112175019.3e8de88c.pasic@linux.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20201223011606.5265-11-akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> References: <20201223011606.5265-1-akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> <20201223011606.5265-11-akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-ID: To: Tony Krowiak Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, freude@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, cohuck@redhat.com, mjrosato@linux.ibm.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, kwankhede@nvidia.com, fiuczy@linux.ibm.com, frankja@linux.ibm.com, david@redhat.com, hca@linux.ibm.com, gor@linux.ibm.com On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:16:01 -0500 Tony Krowiak wrote: > Introduces a new driver callback to prevent a root user from unbinding > an AP queue from its device driver if the queue is in use. The callback > will be invoked whenever a change to the AP bus's sysfs apmask or aqmask > attributes would result in one or more AP queues being removed from its > driver. If the callback responds in the affirmative for any driver > queried, the change to the apmask or aqmask will be rejected with a device > busy error. > > For this patch, only non-default drivers will be queried. Currently, > there is only one non-default driver, the vfio_ap device driver. The > vfio_ap device driver facilitates pass-through of an AP queue to a > guest. The idea here is that a guest may be administered by a different > sysadmin than the host and we don't want AP resources to unexpectedly > disappear from a guest's AP configuration (i.e., adapters and domains > assigned to the matrix mdev). This will enforce the proper procedure for > removing AP resources intended for guest usage which is to > first unassign them from the matrix mdev, then unbind them from the > vfio_ap device driver. > > Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak > Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic