From: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, freude@linux.ibm.com,
borntraeger@de.ibm.com, mjrosato@linux.ibm.com,
pasic@linux.ibm.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
kwankhede@nvidia.com, fiuczy@linux.ibm.com,
frankja@linux.ibm.com, david@redhat.com, imbrenda@linux.ibm.com,
hca@linux.ibm.com, gor@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 01/16] s390/vfio-ap: add version vfio_ap module
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:49:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca016eca-1ee7-2d0f-c2ec-3ef147b6216a@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200825120432.13a1b444.cohuck@redhat.com>
On 8/25/20 6:04 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:56:01 -0400
> Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Let's set a version for the vfio_ap module so that automated regression
>> tests can determine whether dynamic configuration tests can be run or
>> not.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c b/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
>> index be2520cc010b..f4ceb380dd61 100644
>> --- a/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
>> @@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
>>
>> #define VFIO_AP_ROOT_NAME "vfio_ap"
>> #define VFIO_AP_DEV_NAME "matrix"
>> +#define VFIO_AP_MODULE_VERSION "1.2.0"
>>
>> MODULE_AUTHOR("IBM Corporation");
>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VFIO AP device driver, Copyright IBM Corp. 2018");
>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>> +MODULE_VERSION(VFIO_AP_MODULE_VERSION);
>>
>> static struct ap_driver vfio_ap_drv;
>>
> Setting a version manually has some drawbacks:
> - tools wanting to check for capabilities need to keep track which
> versions support which features
> - you need to remember to actually bump the version when adding a new,
> visible feature
> (- selective downstream backports may get into a pickle, but that's
> arguably not your problem)
>
> Is there no way for a tool to figure out whether this is supported?
> E.g., via existence of a sysfs file, or via a known error that will
> occur. If not, it's maybe better to expose known capabilities via a
> generic interface.
This patch series introduces a new mediated device sysfs attribute,
guest_matrix, so the automated tests could check for the existence
of that interface. The problem I have with that is it will work for
this version of the vfio_ap device driver - which may be all that is
ever needed - but does not account for future enhancements
which may need to be detected by tooling or automated tests.
It seems to me that regardless of how a tool detects whether
a feature is supported or not, it will have to keep track of that
somehow.
Can you provide more details about this generic interface of
which you speak?
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-26 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-21 19:56 [PATCH v10 00/16] s390/vfio-ap: dynamic configuration support Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 01/16] s390/vfio-ap: add version vfio_ap module Tony Krowiak
2020-08-25 10:04 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-26 14:49 ` Tony Krowiak [this message]
2020-08-27 10:32 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-27 14:39 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-28 8:10 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 02/16] s390/vfio-ap: use new AP bus interface to search for queue devices Tony Krowiak
2020-08-25 10:13 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-27 14:24 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-28 8:13 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-28 15:10 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-25 2:11 ` Halil Pasic
2020-10-16 20:59 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-04 8:11 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-09-08 18:54 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-25 2:27 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 13:07 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-29 13:37 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 20:57 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 03/16] s390/vfio-ap: manage link between queue struct and matrix mdev Tony Krowiak
2020-08-25 10:25 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-28 23:05 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-04 8:15 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-09-08 19:03 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-25 7:58 ` Halil Pasic
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 04/16] s390/zcrypt: driver callback to indicate resource in use Tony Krowiak
2020-09-14 15:29 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-15 19:32 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-17 12:14 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-17 13:54 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-25 9:24 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 13:59 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 05/16] s390/vfio-ap: implement in-use callback for vfio_ap driver Tony Krowiak
2020-09-14 15:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-25 9:29 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 14:00 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 06/16] s390/vfio-ap: introduce shadow APCB Tony Krowiak
2020-09-17 14:22 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-18 17:03 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-26 1:38 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 16:04 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-29 16:19 ` Halil Pasic
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 07/16] s390/vfio-ap: sysfs attribute to display the guest's matrix Tony Krowiak
2020-09-17 14:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-18 17:09 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-26 7:16 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 21:00 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 08/16] s390/vfio-ap: filter matrix for unavailable queue devices Tony Krowiak
2020-09-26 8:24 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-29 21:59 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 09/16] s390/vfio-ap: allow assignment of unavailable AP queues to mdev device Tony Krowiak
2020-09-26 23:49 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-30 12:59 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-30 22:29 ` Halil Pasic
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 10/16] s390/vfio-ap: allow configuration of matrix mdev in use by a KVM guest Tony Krowiak
2020-09-27 0:03 ` Halil Pasic
2020-09-30 13:19 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 11/16] s390/vfio-ap: allow hot plug/unplug of AP resources using mdev device Tony Krowiak
2020-09-28 1:01 ` Halil Pasic
2020-10-05 16:24 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-10-05 18:30 ` Halil Pasic
2020-10-05 21:48 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-10-05 23:05 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 12/16] s390/zcrypt: Notify driver on config changed and scan complete callbacks Tony Krowiak
2020-09-27 1:39 ` Halil Pasic
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 13/16] s390/vfio-ap: handle host AP config change notification Tony Krowiak
2020-09-28 1:38 ` Halil Pasic
2020-10-12 20:53 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-10-12 21:27 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 14/16] s390/vfio-ap: handle AP bus scan completed notification Tony Krowiak
2020-09-28 2:11 ` Halil Pasic
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 15/16] s390/vfio-ap: handle probe/remove not due to host AP config changes Tony Krowiak
2020-09-28 2:45 ` Halil Pasic
2020-08-21 19:56 ` [PATCH v10 16/16] s390/vfio-ap: update docs to include dynamic config support Tony Krowiak
2020-08-25 10:45 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-08-31 18:34 ` Tony Krowiak
2020-09-28 2:48 ` Halil Pasic
2020-10-16 16:36 ` Tony Krowiak
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