RE: [PATCH v4 28/28] vfio/xe: Add device specific vfio_pci driver variant for Intel graphics

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2025 8:48 AM
> 
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 03:10:33AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > To me, it looks like something generic, that will have impact on any
> > > device specific driver variant.
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > I wonder if drivers that don't implement the deferred reset trick were
> > > ever executed with lockdep enabled.
> > >
> >
> > @Jason, @Yishai, @Shameer, @Giovanni, @Brett:
> >
> > Sounds it's a right thing to pull back the deferred reset trick into
> > every driver. anything overlooked?
> 
> It does seem like we should probably do something in the core code to
> help this and remove the duplication.

from backport p.o.v. it might be easier to first fix each driver 
independently then remove the duplication in upstream? 

> 
> I guess it makes sense the read/write lock would become entangled too.
> 

looks so