linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] VFIO PPC64: add VFIO support on POWERPC64

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Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 08:56:24 -0600
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] VFIO PPC64: add VFIO support on POWERPC64

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 13:33 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> The series adds support for VFIO on POWERPC in user space (such as QEMU).
> The in-kernel real mode IOMMU support is added by another series posted
> separately.
> 
> As the first and main aim of this series is the POWERNV platform support,
> the "Enable on POWERNV platform" patch goes first and introduces an API
> to be used by the VFIO IOMMU driver. The "Enable on pSeries platform" patch
> simply registers PHBs in the IOMMU subsystem and expects the API to be present,
> it enables VFIO support in fully emulated QEMU guests.
> 
> The main change is that this series was changed and tested against v3.10-rc1.
> It also contains some bugfixes which are mentioned (if any) in the patch messages.
> 
> Alexey Kardashevskiy (3):
>   powerpc/vfio: Enable on POWERNV platform
>   powerpc/vfio: Implement IOMMU driver for VFIO
>   powerpc/vfio: Enable on pSeries platform
> 
>  Documentation/vfio.txt                      |   63 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/iommu.h            |   26 ++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c                 |  323 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c   |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-p5ioc2.c |    5 +-
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci.c        |    2 +
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c      |    4 +
>  drivers/iommu/Kconfig                       |    8 +
>  drivers/vfio/Kconfig                        |    6 +
>  drivers/vfio/Makefile                       |    1 +
>  drivers/vfio/vfio.c                         |    1 +
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c         |  377 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h                   |   34 +++
>  13 files changed, 850 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> 

These look ok to me, how do you want to integrate them?  Should I
provide Acks on patches 2 & 3 and let them get pushed through the ppc
tree or should I wait for patch 1 then push 2 & 3 through my tree?
Thanks,

Alex

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