[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v3 12/12] vfio/pci: Report dev_id in VFIO_DEVICE_GET_PCI_HOT_RESET_INFO

[Liu, Yi L]

> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 9:20 PM
> 
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:22:17 +0000
> "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2023 10:09 PM
> > [...]
> > > > > Whereas dev-id < 0
> > > > > (== -1) is an affected device which prevents hot-reset, ex. an un-owned
> > > > > device, device configured within a different iommufd_ctx, or device
> > > > > opened outside of the vfio cdev API."  Is that about right?  Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Do you mean to have separate err-code for the three possibilities? As
> > > > the devid is generated by iommufd and it is u32. I'm not sure if we can
> > > > have such err-code definition without reserving some ids in iommufd.
> > >
> > > Yes, if we're going to report the full dev-set, I think we need at
> > > least two unique error codes or else the user has no way to determine
> > > the subset of invalid dev-ids which block the reset.  I think Jason is
> > > proposing the set of valid dev-ids are >0, a dev-id of zero indicates
> > > some form of non-blocking, while <0 (or maybe specifically -1)
> > > indicates a blocking device.  I was trying to get consensus on a formal
> > > definition of each of those error codes in my previous reply.  Thanks,
> >
> > Seems like RESETTABLE flag is not needed if we report -1 for the devices
> > that block hotreset. Userspace can deduce if the calling device is resettable
> > or not by checking if there is any -1 in the affected device list.
> 
> There is some redundancy there, yes.  Given the desire for a null array
> on the actual reset ioctl I assumed there would also be a desire to
> streamline the info ioctl such that userspace isn't required to parse
> the return array, for example maybe userspace isn't required to pass a
> full buffer and can get the reset availability status from only the
> header.  Of course it's still the responsibility of userspace to know
> the extent of the reset.  Thanks,

I keep it and has sent a refreshed version for hot-reset. 😊

https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20230426145419.450922-9-yi.l.liu@intel.com/

Regards,
Yi Liu