Re: [PATCH] util: basic support for vendor-specific vfio drivers
On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 09:49:28AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > Fortunately these new vendor/device-specific
drivers can be easily
> > > > identified as being "vfio-pci + extra stuff" - all
that's needed is to
> > > > look at the output of the "modinfo $driver_name" command to
see if
> > > > "vfio_pci" is in the alias list for the driver.
We are moving in a direction on the kernel side to expose a sysfs
under the PCI device that definitively says it is VFIO enabled, eg
something like
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.6/vfio/<N>
Which is how every other subsystem in the kernel works. When this
lands libvirt can simply stat the vfio directory and confirm that the
device handle it is looking at is vfio enabled, for all things that
vfio support.
My thinking had been to do the above work a bit later, but if libvirt
needs it right now then lets do it right away so we don't have to
worry about this hacky modprobe stuff down the road?
There are already WIP patches for it here:
https://github.com/yiliu1765/iommufd/commit/7fff911c20f31dff9337417714991...
Regards,
Jason