Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit binding via sysfs only

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 23:45 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> 
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> > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit binding via
> > sysfs only
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 23:31 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:00 AM
> > > > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
> > > > Cc: Wood Scott-B07421; Alex Williamson; Kim Phillips; Yoder
> > > > Stuart-B08248; christoffer.dall@linaro.org;
> > > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com;
> > > > agraf@suse.de; Sethi Varun-B16395; peter.maydell@linaro.org;
> > > > santosh.shukla@linaro.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org;
> > > > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit
> > > > binding via sysfs only
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 22:52 -0500, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> > > > > So when ids == NULL it does not check of vendor etc and calls
> > > > > pci_add_dynid()
> > > > which in turn calls driver_attach().
> > > > >
> > > > > If we change the above loop to break if ids->vendor == PCI_ANY_ID
> > > > >&& ids- subvendor == PCI_ANY_ID then also we will call pci_add_dyids().
> > > >
> > > > What problem are you trying to solve?
> > >
> > > new_id interface to continue working as before.
> > 
> > In what specific way does this allow new_id to continue working as before?  Be
> > verbose.
> 
> 
> What I observed that this patch (kim's patch) new_id interface stops working.

Yes.

>  This is found to be because store_new_id() checks for pdrv->id_table which is no more NULL, so the below check fails

I do not think that is the reason.  The reason is because
sysfs_bind_only is set, and this is not a direct sysfs bind.

>         if (ids) {
> ^^
> This is no more NULL, so enter inside the loop
> 
>                 retval = -EINVAL;
>                 while (ids->vendor || ids->subvendor || ids->class_mask) {
>                         if (driver_data == ids->driver_data) {
>                                 retval = 0;
>                                 break;
>                         }
>                         ids++;
>                 }
>                 if (retval)   /* No match */
>                         return retval;
> ^^^^^
> This is where it returns as -EINVAL

Why wouldn't it have broken out of the loop earlier, since driver_data
and ids->driver_data should both be zero?  I assume this is with a patch
to do PCI_ANY_ID in vfio-pci.

-Scott