RE: [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] Mediated device Core driver

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>]

> From: Dong Jia [mailto:bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 4:58 PM
> 
> 
> ...snip...
> 
> > +struct phy_device_ops {
> > +	struct module   *owner;
> > +	const struct attribute_group **dev_attr_groups;
> > +	const struct attribute_group **mdev_attr_groups;
> > +
> > +	int	(*supported_config)(struct device *dev, char *config);
> > +	int     (*create)(struct device *dev, uuid_le uuid,
> > +			  uint32_t instance, char *mdev_params);
> > +	int     (*destroy)(struct device *dev, uuid_le uuid,
> > +			   uint32_t instance);
> > +	int     (*start)(uuid_le uuid);
> > +	int     (*shutdown)(uuid_le uuid);
> > +	ssize_t (*read)(struct mdev_device *vdev, char *buf, size_t count,
> > +			enum mdev_emul_space address_space, loff_t pos);
> > +	ssize_t (*write)(struct mdev_device *vdev, char *buf, size_t count,
> > +			 enum mdev_emul_space address_space, loff_t pos);
> > +	int     (*set_irqs)(struct mdev_device *vdev, uint32_t flags,
> > +			    unsigned int index, unsigned int start,
> > +			    unsigned int count, void *data);
> > +	int	(*get_region_info)(struct mdev_device *vdev, int region_index,
> > +				 struct pci_region_info *region_info);
> > +	int	(*validate_map_request)(struct mdev_device *vdev,
> > +					unsigned long virtaddr,
> > +					unsigned long *pfn, unsigned long *size,
> > +					pgprot_t *prot);
> > +};
> 
> Dear Kirti:
> 
> When I rebased my vfio-ccw patches on this series, I found I need an
> extra 'ioctl' callback in phy_device_ops.
> 
> The ccw physical device only supports one ccw mediated device. And I
> have two new ioctl commands for the ccw mediated device. One is
> to hot-reset the resource in the physical device that allocated for
> the mediated device, the other is to do an I/O instruction translation
> and perform an I/O operation on the physical device. I found the
> existing callbacks could not meet my requirements.
> 
> Something like the following would be fine for my case:
> 	int (*ioctl)(struct mdev_device *vdev,
> 		     unsigned int cmd,
> 		     unsigned long arg);
> 
> What do you think about this?
> 

'reset' should be generic. better to define an individual callback
for it (then we can also expose a node under vgpu path in sysfs).

Thanks
Kevin