From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: liulongfang <liulongfang@huawei.com>
Cc: alex.williamson@redhat.com, shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com,
john.garry@huawei.com, cohuck@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxarm@openeuler.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] vfio/migration: Add debugfs to live migration driver
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:15:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4YF6KmQMys+w2hi@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca3059d7-c73c-e712-9924-94891229cefd@huawei.com>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:02:46AM +0800, liulongfang wrote:
> On 2022/11/28 21:39, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:11:56AM +0800, Longfang Liu wrote:
> >
> >> @@ -119,6 +132,9 @@ struct vfio_migration_ops {
> >> enum vfio_device_mig_state *curr_state);
> >> int (*migration_get_data_size)(struct vfio_device *device,
> >> unsigned long *stop_copy_length);
> >> + int (*migration_get_data)(struct vfio_device *device, char *buffer);
> >> + int (*migration_get_attr)(struct vfio_device *device, char *buffer);
> >> + int (*migration_debug_operate)(struct vfio_device *device,
> >> unsigned int cmd);
> >
> > Please don't do wrappers like this, give the variant driver a chance
> > to create its own files natively under the debugfs directory
> >
>
> Using this public debugfs file does not need to deal with file
> creation and destruction.
> The driver only needs to define its debug operation command,
> isn't it simpler?
No, it is obfuscating the normal kernel apis, what if a driver wants
two files?
debugfs is not a heavy burden to implement files for.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-28 3:11 [PATCH v3 0/5] add debugfs to migration driver Longfang Liu
2022-11-28 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] vfio/migration: Add debugfs to live " Longfang Liu
2022-11-28 13:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-11-29 2:02 ` liulongfang
2022-11-29 13:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-12-01 1:37 ` liulongfang
2022-11-28 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: extract public functions for container_of Longfang Liu
2022-11-28 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] hisi_acc_vfio_pci: register debugfs for hisilicon migration driver Longfang Liu
2022-11-28 3:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] Documentation: add debugfs description for hisi_acc_vfio_pci Longfang Liu
2022-11-28 3:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] vfio: update live migration device status Longfang Liu
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