linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 12/22] s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure control domains

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Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:25:25 +0200
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
To:     Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        pmorel@...ux.ibm.com, Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, freude@...ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 12/22] s390: vfio-ap: sysfs interfaces to configure
 control domains

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:16:19 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:

> One of the things I suggested in a private conversation with Christian 
> earlier
> today was to provide an additional rw sysfs attribute - a boolean - that 
> indicates
> whether all usage domains should also be control domains. The default 
> could be
> true. This would allow one to configure guests with usage-only domains 
> as well
> as satisfy the convention.

Would this additional attribute then control "add usage domains to the
list of control domains automatically", or "don't allow to add a usage
domain if it has not already been added as a control domain"?

One thing I'm still unsure about is how libvirt comes into the picture
here. Will it consume the setting, or actively manipulate it?

[In general, I'm not very clear about how libvirt will interact with the
whole infrastructure...]