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authorAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2016-03-10 09:39:07 -0700
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2016-03-10 09:39:07 -0700
commit7df9381b7aa56c897e344f3bfe43bf5848bbd3e0 (patch)
tree2868a0549dd0b610671cc4c0674ddeb19bf1e578 /Makefile.objs
parenta648c137383d84bc4f95696e5293978d9541a26e (diff)
vfio: Add sysfsdev property for pci & platform
vfio-pci currently requires a host= parameter, which comes in the form of a PCI address in [domain:]<bus:slot.function> notation. We expect to find a matching entry in sysfs for that under /sys/bus/pci/devices/. vfio-platform takes a similar approach, but defines the host= parameter to be a string, which can be matched directly under /sys/bus/platform/devices/. On the PCI side, we have some interest in using vfio to expose vGPU devices. These are not actual discrete PCI devices, so they don't have a compatible host PCI bus address or a device link where QEMU wants to look for it. There's also really no requirement that vfio can only be used to expose physical devices, a new vfio bus and iommu driver could expose a completely emulated device. To fit within the vfio framework, it would need a kernel struct device and associated IOMMU group, but those are easy constraints to manage. To support such devices, which would include vGPUs, that honor the VFIO PCI programming API, but are not necessarily backed by a unique PCI address, add support for specifying any device in sysfs. The vfio API already has support for probing the device type to ensure compatibility with either vfio-pci or vfio-platform. With this, a vfio-pci device could either be specified as: -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0 or -device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0 or even -device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:00.0 When vGPU support comes along, this might look something more like: -device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/devices/virtual/intel-vgpu/vgpu0@0000:00:02.0 NB - This is only a made up example path The same change is made for vfio-platform, specifying sysfsdev has precedence over the old host option. Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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