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From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, akrowiak@linux.ibm.com,
	pasic@linux.ibm.com, david@redhat.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, freude@linux.ibm.com,
	mimu@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] s390: vfio_ap: link the vfio_ap devices to the vfio_ap bus subsystem
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:40:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190214164044.5e67660a.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6147f1ce-fd8b-1ec2-30ce-7ac68f3d8e27@de.ibm.com>

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:05:35 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 14.02.2019 15:54, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:51:01 +0100
> > Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com> wrote:  
> 
> Pierre,
> this is independent from this series and should have been sent separately.
> In the end (when we have the final solution) this will require cc stable.
> >   
> >> Libudev relies on having a subsystem link for non-root devices. To
> >> avoid libudev (and potentially other userspace tools) choking on the
> >> matrix device let us introduce a vfio_ap bus and with that the vfio_ap
> >> bus subsytem, and make the matrix device reside within it.  
> > 
> > How does libudev choke on this? It feels wrong to introduce a bus that
> > basically does nothing...  
> 
> I have seen libvirt looping when a matrix device was available before the
> libvirt start.
> Marc Hartmayer debugged this and circumvented this in libvirt:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-February/msg00837.html
> 
> Still libudev expects a subsystem link in the matrix folder when doing the 
> udev_enumerate_scan_devices call.
> 
> Having a bus is one way of adding a subsystem link.

Ugh, that feels really broken. Adding a bus is probably the easiest way
to get this working, though :/

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-14 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-14 13:51 [PATCH v3 0/9] [RFC] vfio: ap: ioctl definitions for AP Queue Interrupt Control Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] s390: vfio_ap: link the vfio_ap devices to the vfio_ap bus subsystem Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 14:54   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 15:05     ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-02-14 15:40       ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2019-02-14 17:12       ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-14 17:35       ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 15:47     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 16:57       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 17:36         ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 18:30           ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-15  9:11             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 21:59               ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-18 12:01                 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-18 16:35                   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-18 16:57                     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-19 22:27                       ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-20  9:05                         ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 15:01   ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-02-14 15:09     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] s390: ap: kvm: setting a hook for PQAP instructions Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 15:54   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 16:45     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-15  9:26       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15  9:55         ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 22:02   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-18 18:29     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-18 22:42       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-19 19:50         ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-19 22:36           ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-21 12:40             ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-19 22:50           ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] s390: ap: new vfio_ap_queue structure Pierre Morel
2019-02-15  9:37   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15  9:58     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] s390: ap: tools to find a queue with a specific APQN Pierre Morel
2019-02-15  9:49   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 10:10     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 10:24       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 22:13   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-18 12:21     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-18 18:32       ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-22 15:04       ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] s390: ap: tools to associate a queue to a matrix Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 22:30   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-18 18:36     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] vfio: ap: register IOMMU VFIO notifier Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 22:55   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-19  9:59     ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-19 19:04       ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-19 21:33       ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-19 18:51     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] s390: ap: implement PAPQ AQIC interception in kernel Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 23:11   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-19 19:16     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-20 11:54   ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-21 12:50     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] s390: ap: Cleanup on removing the AP device Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 23:29   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-19 19:29     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-15 23:36   ` Tony Krowiak
2019-02-19 19:41     ` Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] s390: ap: kvm: add AP Queue Interruption Control facility Pierre Morel
2019-02-14 20:33 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] [RFC] vfio: ap: ioctl definitions for AP Queue Interrupt Control Tony Krowiak
2019-02-15  8:44   ` Pierre Morel

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