linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 18/24] virt: gunyah: Add resource tickets

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Message-ID: <85fe3f90-12ff-cb91-73c1-0efe66dae695@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 5 Jun 2023 14:49:59 -0500
From:   Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
To:     Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <quic_pheragu@...cinc.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 18/24] virt: gunyah: Add resource tickets

On 5/9/23 3:47 PM, Elliot Berman wrote:
> Some VM functions need to acquire Gunyah resources. For instance, Gunyah
> vCPUs are exposed to the host as a resource. The Gunyah vCPU function
> will register a resource ticket and be able to interact with the
> hypervisor once the resource ticket is filled.
> 
> Resource tickets are the mechanism for functions to acquire ownership of
> Gunyah resources. Gunyah functions can be created before the VM's
> resources are created and made available to Linux. A resource ticket
> identifies a type of resource and a label of a resource which the ticket
> holder is interested in.
> 
> Resources are created by Gunyah as configured in the VM's devicetree
> configuration. Gunyah doesn't process the label and that makes it
> possible for userspace to create multiple resources with the same label.
> Resource ticket owners need to be prepared for populate to be called
> multiple times if userspace created multiple resources with the same
> label.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>

> ---
>   drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.c  | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   drivers/virt/gunyah/vm_mgr.h  |   4 ++
>   include/linux/gunyah_vm_mgr.h |  14 ++++
>   3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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