This patchset introduces a version attribute under sysfs of VFIO Mediated devices. This version attribute is used to check whether two mdev devices are compatible. user space software can take advantage of this version attribute to determine whether to launch live migration between two mdev devices. Patch 1 defines version attribute in Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt Patch 2 uses GVT as an example to show how to expose version attribute and check device compatibility in vendor driver. v2: 1. renamed patched 1 2. made definition of device version string completely private to vendor driver 3. abandoned changes to sample mdev drivers 4. described intent and usage of version attribute more clearly. Yan Zhao (2): vfio/mdev: add version attribute for mdev device drm/i915/gvt: export mdev device version to sysfs for Intel vGPU Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/device_version.c | 84 ++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.c | 51 ++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h | 6 + 5 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/device_version.c -- 2.17.1
