linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v6] xen-pciback: allow compiling on other archs than x86

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Message-ID: <a76b424f-79b4-3132-d487-b48da2f5e28e@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:22:22 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Oleksandr Andrushchenko <andr2000@...il.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     jgross@...e.com, julien@....org, sstabellini@...nel.org,
        jbeulich@...e.com,
        Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>,
        Anastasiia Lukianenko <anastasiia_lukianenko@...m.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v6] xen-pciback: allow compiling on other archs
 than x86


On 10/28/21 10:36 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>
>
> Xen-pciback driver was designed to be built for x86 only. But it
> can also be used by other architectures, e.g. Arm.
>
> Currently PCI backend implements multiple functionalities at a time,
> such as:
> 1. It is used as a database for assignable PCI devices, e.g. xl
>     pci-assignable-{add|remove|list} manipulates that list. So, whenever
>     the toolstack needs to know which PCI devices can be passed through
>     it reads that from the relevant sysfs entries of the pciback.
> 2. It is used to hold the unbound PCI devices list, e.g. when passing
>     through a PCI device it needs to be unbound from the relevant device
>     driver and bound to pciback (strictly speaking it is not required
>     that the device is bound to pciback, but pciback is again used as a
>     database of the passed through PCI devices, so we can re-bind the
>     devices back to their original drivers when guest domain shuts down)
> 3. Device reset for the devices being passed through
> 4. Para-virtualised use-cases support
>
> The para-virtualised part of the driver is not always needed as some
> architectures, e.g. Arm or x86 PVH Dom0, are not using backend-frontend
> model for PCI device passthrough.
>
> For such use-cases make the very first step in splitting the
> xen-pciback driver into two parts: Xen PCI stub and PCI PV backend
> drivers.
>
> For that add new configuration options CONFIG_XEN_PCI_STUB and
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_STUB, so the driver can be limited in its
> functionality, e.g. no support for para-virtualised scenario.
> x86 platform will continue using CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND for the
> fully featured backend driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@...m.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Lukianenko <anastasiia_lukianenko@...m.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>



Applied to for-linus-5.16


-boris