From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>,
cohuck@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aviadye@nvidia.com,
oren@nvidia.com, shahafs@nvidia.com, parav@nvidia.com,
artemp@nvidia.com, kwankhede@nvidia.com, ACurrid@nvidia.com,
cjia@nvidia.com, yishaih@nvidia.com, kevin.tian@intel.com,
hch@infradead.org, targupta@nvidia.com,
shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com, liulongfang@huawei.com,
yan.y.zhao@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] PCI: add matching checks for driver_override binding
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:59:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210615155900.51f09c15.alex.williamson@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210615204216.GY1002214@nvidia.com>
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:42:16 -0300
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:20:49AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:04:58 -0300
> > Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:00:29AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > >
> > > > "vfio" override in PCI-core plays out for other override types. Also I
> > > > don't think dynamic IDs should be handled uniquely, new_id_store()
> > > > should gain support for flags and userspace should be able to add new
> > > > dynamic ID with override-only matches to the table. Thanks,
> > >
> > > Why? Once all the enforcement is stripped out the only purpose of the
> > > new flag is to signal a different prepration of modules.alias - which
> > > won't happen for the new_id path anyhow
> >
> > Because new_id allows the admin to insert a new pci_device_id which has
> > been extended to include a flags field and intentionally handling
> > dynamic IDs differently from static IDs seems like generally a bad
> > thing.
>
> I'd agree with you if there was a functional difference at runtime,
> but since that was all removed, I don't think we should touch new_id.
>
> This ends up effectively being only a kbuild related patch that
> changes how modules.alias is built.
But it wasn't all removed. The proposal had:
a) Short circuit the dynamic ID match
b) Fail a driver-override-only match without a driver_override
c) Fail a non-driver-override-only match with a driver_override
Max is only proposing removing c).
b) alone is a functional, runtime difference. As per my previous
example, think about using it as effectively an anti-match. Userspace
can create dynamic entries that will be matched before static entries
that can demote a driver to not be able to bind to a device
automatically. That's functional and useful, I can't think of any
other way we have to effectively remove a static match entry from a
driver. Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-03 16:07 [RFC PATCH v4 00/11] Introduce vfio-pci-core subsystem Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:07 ` [PATCH 01/11] vfio-pci: rename vfio_pci.c to vfio_pci_core.c Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 02/11] vfio-pci: rename vfio_pci_private.h to vfio_pci_core.h Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 03/11] vfio-pci: rename vfio_pci_device to vfio_pci_core_device Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 04/11] vfio-pci: rename ops functions to fit core namings Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 05/11] vfio-pci: include vfio header in vfio_pci_core.h Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 06/11] vfio-pci: introduce vfio_pci.c Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 07/11] vfio-pci: move igd initialization to vfio_pci.c Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 08/11] PCI: add flags field to pci_device_id structure Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 09/11] PCI: add matching checks for driver_override binding Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-08 21:26 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-08 22:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-09 1:27 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-09 9:26 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-13 8:19 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-14 5:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 8:18 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-14 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 16:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-14 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 16:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-14 18:42 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-14 23:12 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-15 15:00 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-15 15:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-15 16:20 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-15 20:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-15 21:59 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2021-06-15 23:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-15 23:22 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-15 23:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-16 0:22 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-16 0:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-16 23:28 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-16 23:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-16 23:42 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-16 23:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-16 23:51 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-16 23:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-20 14:46 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] vfio-pci: introduce vfio_pci_core subsystem driver Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-08 21:26 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-09 9:29 ` Max Gurtovoy
2021-06-03 16:08 ` [PATCH 11/11] mlx5-vfio-pci: add new vfio_pci driver for mlx5 devices Max Gurtovoy
2021-07-30 7:53 ` [RFC PATCH v4 00/11] Introduce vfio-pci-core subsystem Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
2021-07-30 11:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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