Re: refactor the i915 GVT support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 06:27:16PM +0000, Wang, Zhi A wrote:
> Thanks for the idea. I am not sure i915 guys would take this idea since 
> that it's only for GVT-g, i915 doesn't use this at all. We need to take 
> a snapshot of both PCI configuration space and MMIO registers before 
> i915 driver starts to touch the HW.
> 
> One idea is we capture the registers in intel_gvt.c during the early 
> initialization and do everything else when i915.ko is fully loaded. But 
> how about dependence between i915.ko and kvmgt.ko? We cannot do 
> request_module("kvmgt") in i915.ko.
> 
> Maybe Christoph can give more input on this and how we can deal with 
> this? Before we figure out an solution, we have to pick that patch out 
> since it blocks our pull request schedule.
> 
> Also I was thinking if moving gvt into kvmgt.ko is the right direction. 
> It seems the module loading system in kernel is not designed for "module 
> A loading module B, which needs symbols from module A, in the 
> initialization path of module A".

I have a few idea on how to sort this "deadlock" out.  But I'm completely
swamped until the end of next week, so I won't get to anything before
that.