[PATCH 09/10] vfio/pci: Share the core device pointer while invoking feature functions

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 02:55:53PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:00:10 +0300
> Leon Romanovsky <leon at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy at intel.com>
> > 
> > There is no need to share the main device pointer (struct vfio_device *)
> > with all the feature functions as they only need the core device
> > pointer. Therefore, extract the core device pointer once in the
> > caller (vfio_pci_core_ioctl_feature) and share it instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro at nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

<...>

> >  static int vfio_pci_core_pm_entry_with_wakeup(
> > -	struct vfio_device *device, u32 flags,
> > +	struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev, u32 flags,
> >  	struct vfio_device_low_power_entry_with_wakeup __user *arg,
> >  	size_t argsz)
> 
> I'm tempted to fix the line wrapping here, but I think this patch
> stands on its own.  Even if it's rather trivial, it makes sense to
> consolidate and standardize on the vfio_pci_core_device getting passed
> around within vfio_pci_core.c.  Any reason not to split this off?

No problem, I will send it separately after merge window ends.

Thanks

> Thanks,
> 
> Alex