Message ID | cover.1666042872.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Define EINVAL as device/domain incompatibility | expand |
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 04:00:29PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote: > This series is to replace the previous EMEDIUMTYPE patch in a VFIO series: > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Yxnt9uQTmbqul5lf@8bytes.org/ > > The purpose is to regulate all existing ->attach_dev callback functions to > use EINVAL exclusively for an incompatibility error between a device and a > domain. This allows VFIO and IOMMUFD to detect such a soft error, and then > try a different domain with the same device. > > Among all the patches, the first two are preparatory changes. And then one > patch to update kdocs and another three patches for the enforcement effort. > > Although it might be ideal to merge the previous VFIO series together with > this series, given the number of new changes, the review in the IOMMU list > might need a couple of rounds to finalize. Also, considering that v6.0 is > at rc5 now, perhaps we could merge this IOMMU series and the VFIO one in > different cycles to avoid merge conflicts. If there's less concern for it, > I can respin the finalized version of this series with the previous VFIO > one to merge together into the VFIO tree. > > This series is also available on Github: > https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commits/iommu_attach_dev-v7 Since it didn't make v6.1-rc1, I'd like this on a PR as we have two trees that will need it now. Joerg I can make this into a formal signed PR if that is how you'd like things? Thanks, Jason