Hi Alex, Here's the (last?) update to the vfio-ccw lifecycle changes that I've sent recently, and were previously discussed at various points [1][2]. Patches 1-5 rework the behavior of the vfio-ccw driver's private struct. In summary, the mdev pieces are split out of vfio_ccw_private and into a new vfio_ccw_parent struct that will continue to follow today's lifecycle. The remainder (bulk) of the private struct moves to follow the mdev probe/remove pair. There's opportunity for further separation of the things in the private struct, which would simplify some of the vfio-ccw code, but it got too hairy as I started that. Once vfio-ccw is no longer considered unique, those cleanups can happen at our leisure. Patch 6 removes the trickery where vfio-ccw uses vfio_init_device instead of vfio_alloc_device, and thus removes vfio_init_device from the outside world. Patch 7 removes vfio_free_device from vfio-ccw and the other drivers (hello, CC list!), letting it be handled by vfio_device_release directly. I believe this covers everything in this space; let me know if not! Thanks, Eric [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/0-v3-57c1502c62fd+2190-ccw_mdev_jgg@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20220602171948.2790690-1-farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v2->v3: - [MR] Added r-b to remaining patches (Thank you!) - Patch 1: [gfx checkpatch] Whitespace [EF] Remove put_device(&parent->dev) [MR] Fix error exit when alloc of parent fails [MR] Check for !private on sch_probe error path - Patch 3: [EF] Fix error exit when alloc of private fails - Patch 6: [AW] Added ack (Thank you!) - Patch 7: [CH, AK] Added r-b (Thank you!) [AW] Added ack (Thank you!) v2: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20221102150152.2521475-1-farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20221019162135.798901-1-farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Eric Farman (7): vfio/ccw: create a parent struct vfio/ccw: remove private->sch vfio/ccw: move private initialization to callback vfio/ccw: move private to mdev lifecycle vfio/ccw: remove release completion vfio/ccw: replace vfio_init_device with _alloc_ vfio: Remove vfio_free_device drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 1 - drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_chp.c | 5 +- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c | 173 +++++++++++--------------- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_fsm.c | 27 ++-- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c | 107 +++++++++++----- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_private.h | 37 ++++-- drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c | 6 - drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc.c | 1 - drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 1 - drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_amba.c | 1 - drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c | 1 - drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c | 32 ++--- include/linux/vfio.h | 3 - samples/vfio-mdev/mbochs.c | 1 - samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c | 1 - samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c | 1 - 16 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 202 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1