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  • * Re: Allow mdev drivers to directly create the vfio_device (v2 / alternative)
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    @ 2021-06-15  5:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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    From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2021-06-15  5:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Christoph Hellwig
      Cc: kvm, linux-doc, David Airlie, dri-devel, Kirti Wankhede,
    	linux-s390, Jonathan Corbet, Rafael J. Wysocki, Halil Pasic,
    	Christian Borntraeger, Jason Gunthorpe, intel-gfx, Jason Herne,
    	Vasily Gorbik, Heiko Carstens, Alex Williamson, Rodrigo Vivi,
    	Tony Krowiak, Cornelia Huck
    
    On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 05:08:36PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > 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.
    
    This looks much better as far as the driver core changes go, thank you
    for doing this.
    
    I'm guessing there will be at least one more revision of this.  Do you
    want this to go through my driver core tree or is there a mdev tree it
    should go through?  Either is fine for me.
    
    thanks,
    
    greg k-h
    
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    2021-06-14 22:43   ` [PATCH 04/10] driver core: Don't return EPROBE_DEFER to userspace during sysfs bind Jason Gunthorpe
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    2021-06-14 18:47   ` [PATCH 02/10] driver core: Better distinguish probe errors in really_probe Kirti Wankhede
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    2021-06-15  5:18   ` [PATCH 03/10] driver core: Flow the return code from ->probe() through to sysfs bind Greg Kroah-Hartman
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    2021-06-15  5:20   ` [PATCH 05/10] driver core: Export device_driver_attach() Greg Kroah-Hartman
    2021-06-15 10:49   ` Cornelia Huck
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    2021-06-15 10:50   ` [PATCH 06/10] vfio/mdev: Remove CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE Cornelia Huck
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    2021-06-15 10:54   ` [PATCH 07/10] vfio/mdev: Allow the mdev_parent_ops to specify the device driver to bind Cornelia Huck
    

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