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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-07-03 11:49:33 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-07-03 11:49:33 -0700 |
commit | 8e8d9442d1139d05d0c3b83efa34c4b7693d2969 (patch) | |
tree | 33af777d1e177b0f950a406ae7c8a2dac2147dbc /Documentation | |
parent | 58ec9059b396a570b208239b4edc45eeb68b14c4 (diff) | |
parent | 6a45ece4c9af473555f01f0f8b97eba56e3c7d0d (diff) |
Merge tag 'vfio-v5.14-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:
- Module reference fixes, structure renaming (Max Gurtovoy)
- Export and use common pci_dev_trylock() (Luis Chamberlain)
- Enable direct mdev device creation and probing by parent (Christoph
Hellwig & Jason Gunthorpe)
- Fix mdpy error path leak (Colin Ian King)
- Fix mtty list entry leak (Jason Gunthorpe)
- Enforce mtty device limit (Alex Williamson)
- Resolve concurrent vfio-pci mmap faults (Alex Williamson)
* tag 'vfio-v5.14-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
vfio/pci: Handle concurrent vma faults
vfio/mtty: Enforce available_instances
vfio/mtty: Delete mdev_devices_list
vfio: use the new pci_dev_trylock() helper to simplify try lock
PCI: Export pci_dev_trylock() and pci_dev_unlock()
vfio/mdpy: Fix memory leak of object mdev_state->vconfig
vfio/iommu_type1: rename vfio_group struck to vfio_iommu_group
vfio/mbochs: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev()
vfio/mdpy: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev()
vfio/mtty: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev()
vfio/mdev: Allow the mdev_parent_ops to specify the device driver to bind
vfio/mdev: Remove CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE
driver core: Export device_driver_attach()
driver core: Don't return EPROBE_DEFER to userspace during sysfs bind
driver core: Flow the return code from ->probe() through to sysfs bind
driver core: Better distinguish probe errors in really_probe
driver core: Pull required checks into driver_probe_device()
vfio/platform: remove unneeded parent_module attribute
vfio: centralize module refcount in subsystem layer
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst | 35 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst index 1779b85f014e..9f26079cacae 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ interfaces: Registration Interface for a Mediated Bus Driver ------------------------------------------------ -The registration interface for a mediated bus driver provides the following +The registration interface for a mediated device driver provides the following structure to represent a mediated device's driver:: /* @@ -136,37 +136,26 @@ The structures in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows: * dev_attr_groups: attributes of the parent device * mdev_attr_groups: attributes of the mediated device * supported_config: attributes to define supported configurations +* device_driver: device driver to bind for mediated device instances -The functions in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows: +The mdev_parent_ops also still has various functions pointers. Theses exist +for historical reasons only and shall not be used for new drivers. -* create: allocate basic resources in a driver for a mediated device -* remove: free resources in a driver when a mediated device is destroyed - -(Note that mdev-core provides no implicit serialization of create/remove -callbacks per mdev parent device, per mdev type, or any other categorization. -Vendor drivers are expected to be fully asynchronous in this respect or -provide their own internal resource protection.) - -The callbacks in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows: - -* open: open callback of mediated device -* close: close callback of mediated device -* ioctl: ioctl callback of mediated device -* read : read emulation callback -* write: write emulation callback -* mmap: mmap emulation callback - -A driver should use the mdev_parent_ops structure in the function call to -register itself with the mdev core driver:: +When a driver wants to add the GUID creation sysfs to an existing device it has +probe'd to then it should call:: extern int mdev_register_device(struct device *dev, const struct mdev_parent_ops *ops); -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:: +This will provide the 'mdev_supported_types/XX/create' files which can then be +used to trigger the creation of a mdev_device. The created mdev_device will be +attached to the specified driver. + +When the driver needs to remove itself it calls:: extern void mdev_unregister_device(struct device *dev); +Which will unbind and destroy all the created mdevs and remove the sysfs files. Mediated Device Management Interface Through sysfs ================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst b/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst index e15436599086..f57ae621f33e 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst +++ b/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst @@ -514,7 +514,6 @@ These are the steps: * S390_AP_IOMMU * VFIO * VFIO_MDEV - * VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE * KVM If using make menuconfig select the following to build the vfio_ap module:: |