Re: [PATCH 1/9] vfio: Make vfio_(un)register_notifier accept a vfio_device

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On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 06:06:01PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:39:52AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I already looked into that for a while, it is a real mess too because
> > of how the notifiers are used by the current drivers, eg gvt assumes
> > the notifier is called during its open_device callback to setup its
> > kvm.
> 
> gvt very much expects kvm to be set before open and thus get the
> cachup notifier, yes.  And given that this is how qemu uses
> the ioctl I think we can actually simplify this further and require
> vfio_group_set_kvm to be called before open for s390/ap as well and
> do away with this whole mess.

Yeah, I was thinking about that too, but on the other hand I think it
is completely wrong that gvt requires kvm at all. A vfio_device is not
supposed to be tightly linked to KVM - the only exception possibly
being s390..

Jason



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