Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] s390: vfio_ap: link the vfio_ap devices to the vfio_ap bus subsystem

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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:35:45 -0500
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2/18/19 7:01 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:59:33 -0500
> > Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 2/15/19 4:11 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:  
> >>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:30:59 -0500
> >>> Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>> On 2/14/19 12:36 PM, Pierre Morel wrote:  
> >>>>> On 14/02/2019 17:57, Cornelia Huck wrote:  
> >   
> >>>>>> (And reading further in the current code, it seems we clear that
> >>>>>> structure _after_ the matrix device had been setup, so how can that
> >>>>>> even work? Where am I confused?)  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On device_register there were no bus, so the core just do not look for a
> >>>>> driver and this field was nor tested nor overwritten.  
> >>>
> >>> Hm... so has the callback in driver_for_each_device() in
> >>> vfio_ap_verify_queue_reserved() ever been invoked at all? It seems this
> >>> patch fixes more than just libudev issues...  
> >>
> >> It is this patch that rendered the driver_for_each_device() in
> >> vfio_ap_verify_queue_reserved() erroneous. That function gets called
> >> every time an adapter or domain is assigned to the mdev. This patch
> >> introduced the problem with driver_for_each_device().  
> > 
> > So, does this function need to be removed or called from another place,
> > then? (It looks like it was dead code before.)  
> 
> I don't see why you think it's dead code:
> 
> assign_adapter_store
> ==> vfio_ap_mdev_verify_queues_reserved_for_apid
>      ==> vfio_ap_verify_queue_reserved
>          ==> driver_for_each_device  
> 
> The only way that the vfio_ap_verify_queue_reserved - the function that
> calls driver_for_each_device - does not get called is if no bits have
> yet been set in matrix_mdev->matrix.aqm.

What I don't see is how this can be called if no device has been, in
fact, bound to the driver in the driver core...



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