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Message-ID: <2e51b388-48d0-4689-07f4-65f607dbce59@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 10:37:48 -0400
From:   Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     jgg@...dia.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com
Cc:     cohuck@...hat.com, borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com,
        jjherne@...ux.ibm.com, akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com, pasic@...ux.ibm.com,
        zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com, zhi.a.wang@...el.com, hch@...radead.org,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM

On 5/17/22 2:08 PM, Matthew Rosato wrote:
> Rather than relying on a notifier for associating the KVM with
> the group, let's assume that the association has already been
> made prior to device_open.  The first time a device is opened
> associate the group KVM with the device.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@...ux.ibm.com>

...

> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
> index cfcff7764403..c5d421eda275 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>    * Author: Tom Lyon, pugs@...co.com
>    */
>   
> +#include "linux/kvm_host.h"
>   #include <linux/cdev.h>
>   #include <linux/compat.h>
>   #include <linux/device.h>
> @@ -1083,6 +1084,13 @@ static struct file *vfio_device_open(struct vfio_device *device)
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&device->dev_set->lock);
>   	device->open_count++;
> +	down_write(&device->group->group_rwsem);
> +	if (device->open_count == 1 && device->group->kvm) {
> +		device->kvm = device->group->kvm;
> +		kvm_get_kvm(device->kvm);

Did some more compile testing, since vfio has no hard kvm dependency, 
kvm_get_kvm and kvm_put_kvm are an issue if KVM is a module while vfio 
is built-in...

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