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, 8 Jun 2021 19:27:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210608192711.4956cda2.alex.williamson@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210608224517.GQ1002214@nvidia.com>
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 19:45:17 -0300
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 03:26:43PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > drivers that specifically opt into this feature and the driver now has
> > > the opportunity to provide a proper match table that indicates what HW
> > > it can properly support. vfio-pci continues to support everything.
> >
> > In doing so, this also breaks the new_id method for vfio-pci.
>
> Does it? How? The driver_override flag is per match entry not for the
> entire device so new_id added things will work the same as before as
> their new match entry's flags will be zero.
Hmm, that might have been a testing issue; combining driverctl with
manual new_id testing might have left a driver_override in place.
> > Sorry, with so many userspace regressions, crippling the
> > driver_override interface with an assumption of such a narrow focus,
> > creating a vfio specific match flag, I don't see where this can go.
> > Thanks,
>
> On the other hand it overcomes all the objections from the last go
> round: how userspace figures out which driver to use with
> driver_override and integrating the universal driver into the scheme.
>
> pci_stub could be delt with by marking it for driver_override like
> vfio_pci.
By marking it a "vfio driver override"? :-\
> But driverctl as a general tool working with any module is not really
> addressable.
>
> Is the only issue the blocking of the arbitary binding? That is not a
> critical peice of this, IIRC
We can't break userspace, which means new_id and driver_override need
to work as they do now. There are scads of driver binding scripts in
the wild, for vfio-pci and other drivers. We can't assume such a
narrow scope. Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-09 1:27 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 [this message]
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
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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