Re: [patch net-next v2 1/6] virtio: add debugfs infrastructure to allow to debug virtio features

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On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 3:23 PM Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 06:37:30AM CEST, jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 5:37 PM Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 05:52:41AM CEST, jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 12:25 AM Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >>
> >> >> Currently there is no way for user to set what features the driver
> >> >> should obey or not, it is hard wired in the code.
> >> >>
> >> >> In order to be able to debug the device behavior in case some feature is
> >> >> disabled, introduce a debugfs infrastructure with couple of files
> >> >> allowing user to see what features the device advertises and
> >> >> to set filter for features used by driver.
> >> >>
> >> >> Example:
> >> >> $cat /sys/bus/virtio/devices/virtio0/features
> >> >> 1110010111111111111101010000110010000000100000000000000000000000
> >> >> $ echo "5" >/sys/kernel/debug/virtio/virtio0/filter_feature_add
> >> >> $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/virtio/virtio0/filter_features
> >> >> 5
> >> >> $ echo "virtio0" > /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtio_net/unbind
> >> >> $ echo "virtio0" > /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtio_net/bind
> >> >> $ cat /sys/bus/virtio/devices/virtio0/features
> >> >> 1110000111111111111101010000110010000000100000000000000000000000
> >> >>
> >> >> Note that sysfs "features" know already exists, this patch does not
> >> >> touch it.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> ---
> >> >
> >> >Note that this can be done already with vp_vdpa feature provisioning:
> >> >
> >> >commit c1ca352d371f724f7fb40f016abdb563aa85fe55
> >> >Author: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >Date:   Tue Sep 27 15:48:10 2022 +0800
> >> >
> >> >    vp_vdpa: support feature provisioning
> >> >
> >> >For example:
> >> >
> >> >vdpa dev add name dev1 mgmtdev pci/0000:02:00.0 device_features 0x300020000
> >>
> >> Sure. My intension was to make the testing possible on any virtio
> >> device.
> >
> >It did that actually, vp_vdpa bridge virtio-pci device into vDPA bus
> >with mediation layer (like feature filtering etc). So it can only run
> >on top of standard virtio-pci device.
> >
> >> Narrowing the testing for vpda would be limitting.
> >
> >Unless you want to use other transport like virtio-mmio.
>
> Also, the goal is to test virtio_net emulated devices.
> There are couple
> of implementation. Non-vdpa.

So what I want to say is, vp_vdpa works for all types of virtio-pci
devices no matter if it is emulated or hardware.

Thanks

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> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Thanks
> >> >
> >>
> >
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