[PATCH V3 1/7] mdev: class id support

Cornelia Huck
2019-10-15T10:26:07Z

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:15:51 +0800
Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> wrote:

> Mdev bus only supports vfio driver right now, so it doesn't implement
> match method. But in the future, we may add drivers other than vfio,
> the first driver could be virtio-mdev. This means we need to add
> device class id support in bus match method to pair the mdev device
> and mdev driver correctly.
>
> So this patch adds id_table to mdev_driver and class_id for mdev
> device with the match method for mdev bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst |  7 ++++++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c                  |  1 +
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c                   |  1 +
>  drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c                 |  1 +
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c                     | 11 +++++++++++
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_driver.c                   | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h                  |  1 +
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/vfio_mdev.c                     |  6 ++++++
>  include/linux/mdev.h                              |  8 ++++++++
>  include/linux/mod_devicetable.h                   |  8 ++++++++
>  samples/vfio-mdev/mbochs.c                        |  1 +
>  samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c                          |  1 +
>  samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c                          |  1 +
>  13 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
> index 25eb7d5b834b..2035e48da7b2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst
> @@ -102,12 +102,14 @@ structure to represent a mediated device's
driver::
>        * @probe: called when new device created
>        * @remove: called when device removed
>        * @driver: device driver structure
> +      * @id_table: the ids serviced by this driver
>        */
>       struct mdev_driver {
>  	     const char *name;
>  	     int  (*probe)  (struct device *dev);
>  	     void (*remove) (struct device *dev);
>  	     struct device_driver    driver;
> +	     const struct mdev_class_id *id_table;
>       };
>
>  A mediated bus driver for mdev should use this structure in the function
calls
> @@ -165,12 +167,15 @@ register itself with the mdev core driver::
>  	extern int  mdev_register_device(struct device *dev,
>  	                                 const struct mdev_parent_ops *ops);
>
> +It is also required to specify the class_id through::
> +
> +	extern int mdev_set_class(struct device *dev, u16 id);

Should the document state explicitly that this should be done in the
->create() callback? Also, I think that the class_id might be different
for different mdevs (even if the parent is the same) -- should that be
mentioned explicitly?

> +
>  However, the mdev_parent_ops structure is not required in the function
call
>  that a driver should use to unregister itself with the mdev core driver::
>
>  	extern void mdev_unregister_device(struct device *dev);
>
> -
>  Mediated Device Management Interface Through sysfs
>  =================================================>
(...)

Looks reasonable to me.