Re: [PATCH] vdpa: mandate 1.0 device

From: Eli Cohen
Date: Sun Jun 06 2021 - 02:38:03 EST


On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:02:51PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch mandates 1.0 for vDPA devices. The plan is never to support
> transitional devices for vDPA devices in the future.
>
> The reasons are:
>
> - To have the semantic of normative statement in the virtio spec and
> eliminate the burden of transitional device for both vDPA bus and
> vDPA parent
> - Eliminate the efforts for dealing with endian conversion in the
> management tool
> - Mandate vDPA vendor to ship modern device instead of transitional
> device which is easily broken and unsafe
> - Transitional device never work since the first day of vDPA
Transitional devices never worked...

Reviewed-by: Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vdpa.h b/include/linux/vdpa.h
> index f311d227aa1b..11dd05b805a7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vdpa.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vdpa.h
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
> #include <linux/device.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> #include <linux/vhost_iotlb.h>
> +#include <uapi/linux/virtio_config.h>
>
> /**
> * struct vdpa_calllback - vDPA callback definition.
> @@ -328,6 +329,11 @@ static inline int vdpa_set_features(struct vdpa_device *vdev, u64 features)
> {
> const struct vdpa_config_ops *ops = vdev->config;
>
> + /* Mandating 1.0 to have semantics of normative statements in
> + * the spec. */
> + if (!(features & BIT_ULL(VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> vdev->features_valid = true;
> return ops->set_features(vdev, features);
> }
> --
> 2.25.1
>