From: Anthony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com, mjrosato@linux.ibm.com,
pasic@linux.ibm.com, alex@shazbot.org, kwankhede@nvidia.com,
fiuczy@linux.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, frankja@linux.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/15] s390/vfio-ap: Data structures for facilitating vfio device migration
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 11:18:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03a49243-cf6c-4aae-9a94-0deb497e869d@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a18d610-d943-4bc5-bb50-0a4ff037f6b3@linux.ibm.com>
On 8/10/26 9:45 AM, Jason J. Herne wrote:
>
>
> On 8/7/26 6:18 PM, Anthony Krowiak wrote:
>> Creates the data structures used to facilitate state transitions during
>> vfio device migration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/s390/crypto/Makefile | 2 +-
>> drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_migration.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_private.h | 5 ++
>> 3 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_migration.c
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/Makefile b/drivers/s390/crypto/Makefile
>> index e83c6603c858..20f29184825a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/s390/crypto/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/Makefile
>> @@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ pkey-uv-objs := pkey_uv.o
>> obj-$(CONFIG_PKEY_UV) += pkey-uv.o
>> # adjunct processor matrix
>> -vfio_ap-objs := vfio_ap_drv.o vfio_ap_ops.o
>> +vfio_ap-objs := vfio_ap_drv.o vfio_ap_ops.o vfio_ap_migration.o
>> obj-$(CONFIG_VFIO_AP) += vfio_ap.o
>> diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_migration.c
>> b/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_migration.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..374d3a67cb21
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_migration.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +/*
>> + * Drives vfio_ap mdev migration.
>> + *
>> + * Copyright IBM Corp. 2025
>> + */
>> +#include "vfio_ap_private.h"
>> +
>> +/* Magic number and version for the vfio_ap_config migration blob */
>> +#define VFIO_AP_MIG_MAGIC 0x76666170U /* "vfap" */
>> +#define VFIO_AP_MIG_VERSION 1U
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * struct vfio_ap_migration_file
>> + *
>> + * This object is used for chunk processing of multiple reads and
>> writes of
>> + * AP configuration information.
>> + *
>> + * @filp: file stream used to read or write AP configuration data
>> + * @ap_config: object used to store AP configuration data between
>> read or write
>> + * calls
>> + * @config_sz: the size (in bytes) of @ap_config
>> + */
>> +struct vfio_ap_migration_file {
>> + struct file *filp;
>> + struct vfio_ap_config *ap_config;
>> + unsigned long config_sz;
>> +};
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * struct vfio_ap_migration_data:
>> + *
>> + * Manages the migration state for the VFIO device that maintains
>> the AP
>> + * configuration of the guest being migrated.
>> + *
>> + * @mig_state: the current migration state
>> + * @resuming_mig_file: the object used to restore the state of
>> the vfio-ap
>> + * device on the destination host.
>> + * @stop_copy_mig_file: the object used to store the AP
>> configuration of the
>> + * source guest for transfer to the destination host.
>> + */
>> +struct vfio_ap_migration_data {
>> + enum vfio_device_mig_state mig_state;
>> + struct vfio_ap_migration_file resuming_mig_file;
>> + struct vfio_ap_migration_file stop_copy_mig_file;
>> +};
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * struct vfio_ap_queue_info - the information for an AP queue
>> + *
>> + * @data: contains the queue information returned in GR2 from the
>> PQAP(TAPQ)
>> + * command
>> + * @apqn: the APQN of the queue
>> + * @reserved: padding to ensure consistent structure size across
>> platforms
>> + */
>> +struct vfio_ap_queue_info {
>> + u64 data;
>> + u16 apqn;
>> + u8 reserved[6];
>> +};
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * struct vfio_ap_config:
>> + *
>> + * Stores the state of a guest's AP configuration.
>> + *
>> + * VFIO device migration state transition from STOP to STOP_COPY:
>> + * -------------------------------------------------------------
>> + * When the migration state transitions from STOP to STOP_COPY, the
>> vfio_ap device
>> + * driver will open a file stream in read-only mode and return the
>> fd to userspace.
>> + * This fd is used during the STOP_COPY phase to read the current
>> state of the
>> + * vfio-ap device on the source host. In response, the driver will
>> store the
>> + * source guest's AP configuration data in a vfio_ap_config object
>> and copy it to
>> + * userspace.
>> + *
>> + * VFIO device migration state transition from STOP to RESUMING:
>> + * ------------------------------------------------------------
>> + * When the VFIO migration state transitions from STOP to RESUMING,
>> + * the vfio_ap device driver will open a file stream in write-only
>> mode and
>> + * return the fd to userspace. This fd is used during the RESUMING
>> phase to
>> + * write the source guest's vfio_ap_config data that was read in
>> during the
>> + * STOP_COPY phase to the vfio_ap device driver on the destination
>> host. In
>> + * response, the device driver will copy the data sent from
>> userspace to a
>> + * vfio_ap_config instance which is then used to update the
>> destination guest's
>> + * AP configuration.
>> + *
>> + * Since the source and destination hosts may be running different
>> versions of
>> + * the linux kernel, the vfio_ap_config object provides two fields
>> (@magic and
>> + * @version) which must be set by the source device driver and
>> verified by the
>> + * destination device driver to ensure the migration ABI of the
>> source and
>> + * destination hosts are compatible.
>> + *
>> + * Note: Since a guest's AP configuration could be comprise of a
>> large number of
>
> Typo. I think you wanted 'comprised' here.
I did, thanks.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-05 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-07 22:18 [PATCH v7 00/15] s390/vfio-ap: Add live guest migration support Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 01/15] s390/vfio-ap: Provide function to get the number of queues assigned to mdev Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-10 13:14 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-24 15:31 ` Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 02/15] s390/vfio-ap: Data structures for facilitating vfio device migration Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-10 13:45 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-10-05 15:18 ` Anthony Krowiak [this message]
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 03/15] s390/vfio-ap: Functions to initialize/release vfio device migration data Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-11 13:57 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-10-05 15:24 ` Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 04/15] s390/vfio-ap: Reset migration state in VFIO_DEVICE_RESET ioctl handler Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-11 17:05 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-10-05 18:52 ` Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 05/15] s390/vfio-ap: Callback to get/set vfio device mig state during guest migration Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-12 16:04 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-10-05 20:42 ` Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 06/15] s390/vfio-ap: Transition guest migration state from STOP to STOP_COPY Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 07/15] s390/vfio-ap: File ops called to save the vfio device migration state Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-13 15:08 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-10-05 21:55 ` Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 08/15] s390/vfio-ap: Transition device migration state from STOP to RESUMING Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-18 14:47 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 09/15] s390/vfio-ap: Add method to set a new guest AP configuration Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-19 13:25 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 10/15] s390/vfio-ap: File ops called to resume the vfio device migration Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-19 17:49 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 11/15] s390/vfio-ap: Transition device migration state to STOP Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-20 12:43 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 12/15] s390/vfio-ap: Transition device migration state from STOP to RUNNING and vice versa Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-20 12:45 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 13/15] s390/vfio-ap: Callback to get the size of data to be migrated during guest migration Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-20 12:52 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 14/15] s390/vfio-ap: Add 'migratable' feature to sysfs 'features' attribute Anthony Krowiak
2026-08-20 13:01 ` Jason J. Herne
2026-08-07 22:18 ` [PATCH v7 15/15] s390/vfio-ap: Add live guest migration chapter to vfio-ap.rst Anthony Krowiak
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