Re: [PATCH kernel v6 19/20] vfio_pci: Allow regions to add own capabilities

From: Alex Williamson
Date: Wed Dec 19 2018 - 11:44:13 EST


[cc +kvm, +lkml]

Ditto list cc comment from 18/20

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:52:31 +1100
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> VFIO regions already support region capabilities with a limited set of
> fields. However the subdriver might have to report to the userspace
> additional bits.
>
> This adds an add_capability() hook to vfio_pci_regops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes:
> v3:
> * removed confusing rationale for the patch, the next patch makes
> use of it anyway
> ---
> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h | 3 +++
> drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h
> index 86aab05..93c1738 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ struct vfio_pci_regops {
> int (*mmap)(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev,
> struct vfio_pci_region *region,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma);
> + int (*add_capability)(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev,
> + struct vfio_pci_region *region,
> + struct vfio_info_cap *caps);
> };
>
> struct vfio_pci_region {
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> index 4a6f7c0..6cb70cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> @@ -763,6 +763,12 @@ static long vfio_pci_ioctl(void *device_data,
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> + if (vdev->region[i].ops->add_capability) {
> + ret = vdev->region[i].ops->add_capability(vdev,
> + &vdev->region[i], &caps);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
> }
> }
>