This patchset introduces a migration_version attribute under sysfs of VFIO Mediated devices. This migration_version attribute is used to check migration compatibility between two mdev devices. Currently, it has two locations: (1) under mdev_type node, which can be used even before device creation, but only for mdev devices of the same mdev type. (2) under mdev device node, which can only be used after the mdev devices are created, but the src and target mdev devices are not necessarily be of the same mdev type (The second location is newly added in v5, in order to keep consistent with the migration_version node for migratable pass-though devices) Patch 1 defines migration_version attribute for the first location in Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt Patch 2 uses GVT as an example for patch 1 to show how to expose migration_version attribute and check migration compatibility in vendor driver. Patch 3 defines migration_version attribute for the second location in Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt Patch 4 uses GVT as an example for patch 3 to show how to expose migration_version attribute and check migration compatibility in vendor driver. (The previous "Reviewed-by" and "Acked-by" for patch 1 and patch 2 are kept in v5, as there are only small changes to commit messages of the two patches.) v5: added patch 2 and 4 for mdev device part of migration_version attribute. v4: 1. fixed indentation/spell errors, reworded several error messages 2. added a missing memory free for error handling in patch 2 v3: 1. renamed version to migration_version 2. let errno to be freely defined by vendor driver 3. let checking mdev_type be prerequisite of migration compatibility check 4. reworded most part of patch 1 5. print detailed error log in patch 2 and generate migration_version string at init time v2: 1. renamed patched 1 2. made definition of device version string completely private to vendor driver 3. reverted changes to sample mdev drivers 4. described intent and usage of version attribute more clearly. Yan Zhao (4): vfio/mdev: add migration_version attribute for mdev (under mdev_type node) drm/i915/gvt: export migration_version to mdev sysfs (under mdev_type node) vfio/mdev: add migration_version attribute for mdev (under mdev device node) drm/i915/gvt: export migration_version to mdev sysfs (under mdev device node) .../driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst | 183 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.c | 39 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/gvt.h | 7 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 55 ++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/migration_version.c | 170 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/vgpu.c | 13 +- 7 files changed, 466 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/migration_version.c -- 2.17.1