Re: [RFC PATCH 19/30] vfio/pci: Add TSM TDI bind/unbind IOCTLs for TEE-IO support

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 05:33:52PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> > +
> > +	/* To ensure no host side MMIO access is possible */
> > +	ret = pci_request_regions_exclusive(pdev, "vfio-pci-tsm");
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		goto out_unlock;
> > +
> >
> 
> I am hitting failures here with similar changes. Can you share the Qemu
> changes needed to make this pci_request_regions_exclusive successful.
> Also after the TDI is unbound, we want the region ownership backto
> "vfio-pci" so that things continue to work as non-secure device. I don't
> see we doing that. I could add a pci_bar_deactivate/pci_bar_activate in
> userspace which will result in vfio_unmap()/vfio_map(). But that doesn't
> release the region ownership.

Again, IMHO, we should not be doing this dynamically. VFIO should do
pci_request_regions_exclusive() once at the very start and it should
stay that way.

There is no reason to change it dynamically.

The only decision to make is if all vfio should switch to exclusive
mode or if we need to make it optional for userspace.

Jason