From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Allow mdev drivers to directly create the vfio_device (v3)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:35:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210615133519.754763-1-hch@lst.de> (raw)
This is my alternative take on this series from Jason:
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/87czsszi9i.fsf@redhat.com/T/
The mdev/vfio parts are exactly the same, but this solves the driver core
changes for the direct probing without the in/out flag that Greg hated,
which cause a little more work, but probably make the result better.
Original decription from Jason below:
The mdev bus's core part for managing the lifecycle of devices is mostly
as one would expect for a driver core bus subsystem.
However instead of having a normal 'struct device_driver' and binding the
actual mdev drivers through the standard driver core mechanisms it open
codes this with the struct mdev_parent_ops and provides a single driver
that shims between the VFIO core's struct vfio_device and the actual
device driver.
Instead, allow mdev drivers implement an actual struct mdev_driver and
directly call vfio_register_group_dev() in the probe() function for the
mdev. Arrange to bind the created mdev_device to the mdev_driver that is
provided by the end driver.
The actual execution flow doesn't change much, eg what was
parent_ops->create is now device_driver->probe and it is called at almost
the exact same time - except under the normal control of the driver core.
Ultimately converting all the drivers unlocks a fair number of additional
VFIO simplifications and cleanups.
Changes since v1:
- avoid warning spam for successful probes
- improve the probe_count protection
next reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 13:35 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 01/10] driver core: Pull required checks into driver_probe_device() Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 02/10] driver core: Better distinguish probe errors in really_probe Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 13:53 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-06-15 14:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-15 14:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-16 20:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 03/10] driver core: Flow the return code from ->probe() through to sysfs bind Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 04/10] driver core: Don't return EPROBE_DEFER to userspace during " Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:03 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-06-15 19:36 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 05/10] driver core: Export device_driver_attach() Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 06/10] vfio/mdev: Remove CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-16 20:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 07/10] vfio/mdev: Allow the mdev_parent_ops to specify the device driver to bind Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:06 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-06-15 14:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-16 0:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-16 6:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-16 20:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 08/10] vfio/mtty: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev() Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-16 20:20 ` Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 09/10] vfio/mdpy: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-15 13:35 ` [PATCH 10/10] vfio/mbochs: " Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-15 14:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-15 19:35 ` Allow mdev drivers to directly create the vfio_device (v3) Alex Williamson
2021-06-15 20:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-16 3:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-16 14:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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