Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit binding via sysfs only

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 22:52 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:11 AM
> > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> > Cc: Wood Scott-B07421; Alex Williamson; Kim Phillips; Yoder Stuart-B08248;
> > christoffer.dall@linaro.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com; agraf@suse.de; Sethi Varun-B16395;
> > peter.maydell@linaro.org; santosh.shukla@linaro.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org;
> > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit binding via
> > sysfs only
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 22:38 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 11:40 PM
> > > > To: Alex Williamson
> > > > Cc: Kim Phillips; Bhushan Bharat-R65777; Wood Scott-B07421; Yoder
> > > > Stuart-B08248; christoffer.dall@linaro.org;
> > > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com;
> > > > agraf@suse.de; Sethi Varun-B16395; peter.maydell@linaro.org;
> > > > santosh.shukla@linaro.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org;
> > > > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit
> > > > binding via sysfs only
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 13:00 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 11:47 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 01:27 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > > > > > > Force the vfio-pci driver to only be bound explicitly via
> > > > > > > sysfs to avoid conflics with other drivers in the event of a hotplug.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We can't break userspace, so we can't disable the current method
> > > > > > of binding devices to vfio-pci.  We can add a new method and
> > > > > > perhaps deprecate the existing mechanism to be removed at some
> > > > > > point in the future.  Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > I thought the existing method involved using sysfs bind, and this
> > > > > was just eliminating a race.  How does the bind get triggered currently?
> > > >
> > > > OK, so it seems it's relying on the write to new_id calling driver_attach().
> > > > Sigh.  I guess we could make driver-sysfs-bind-only be settable via
> > > > sysfs, and have new-userspace set both that and PCI_ANY_ID (or the
> > > > specific ID if userspace
> > > > prefers) via new_id.  The platform bus patches could continue as is,
> > > > since there's no existing mechanism to break.
> > >
> > > What about changing the store_new_id() to bypass exact ids check if driver
> > have PCI_ANY_ID?
> > 
> > I don't follow.
> 
> store_new_id() function id defined as:
> 
> static ssize_t store_new_id(struct device_driver *driver, const char *buf, size_t count)
> {
>         struct pci_driver *pdrv = to_pci_driver(driver);
>         const struct pci_device_id *ids = pdrv->id_table;
> 
> <snip>
>         /* Only accept driver_data values that match an existing id_table
>            entry */
>         if (ids) {
>                 retval = -EINVAL;
>                 while (ids->vendor || ids->subvendor || ids->class_mask) {
>                         if (driver_data == ids->driver_data) {
>                                 retval = 0;
>                                 break;
>                         }
>                         ids++;
>                 }
>                 if (retval)     /* No match */
>                         return retval;
>         }
> 
>         retval = pci_add_dynid(pdrv, vendor, device, subvendor, subdevice,
>                                class, class_mask, driver_data);
> <snip>
> 
> 
> So when ids == NULL it does not check of vendor etc and calls pci_add_dynid() which in turn calls driver_attach().
> 
> If we change the above loop to break if ids->vendor == PCI_ANY_ID && ids->subvendor == PCI_ANY_ID then also we will call pci_add_dyids().

What problem are you trying to solve?

-Scott