On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:40:11AM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:16:32AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:44:33PM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote: > > > > Looking further at the code, I cannot see where the mem fields are > > > > being filled at all. > > > > Which code is supposed to write the struct uio_mem? > > > > > > In my opinion, the driver should. However, Michael's idea is to use > > > /sys/bus/pci/devices/XXXXXresourceX for mapping purposes. > > > > > > That is of course also possible, but obviously it leads to confusion. > > > We already had a long thread about this: > > > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg73837.html > > > > > > Michael, can we change the driver to offer all available PCI BARs in the > > > normal UIO way? I'm afraid otherwise we'll have the same discussion over > > > and over again. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Hans > > > > My concern was people will ask for more and more stuff that pci > > sysfs already has. > > If we do add these is there a way to not duplicate code from pci? > > Export pci_mmap_resource and use it? Or make the uio attributes > > softlinks to pci sysfs somehow? > > I understand your concern. Of course I'm also not in favor of duplicating > code, but I don't think there's much overhead. PCI already exports all > information needed by pci_resource_start(dev, bar) and > pci_resource_len(dev, bar). Have a look at other UIO PCI drivers like > uio_cif.c or uio_netx.c to see how it works. It's just a few more lines > of code to loop through all BARs and add the to info->mem[i]. > > By the way, the current size of the info->mem[] array was exactly made > with PCI in mind... > > Thanks, > Hans Well we also need to check resource type and probably iomem_is_exclusive. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html