vfio-pci currently requires a host= parameter, which comes in the
form of a PCI address in [domain:]<bus:slot.function> notation. We
expect to find a matching entry in sysfs for that under
/sys/bus/pci/devices/. vfio-platform takes a similar approach, but
defines the host= parameter to be a string, which can be matched
directly under /sys/bus/platform/devices/. On the PCI side, we have
some interest in using vfio to expose vGPU devices. These are not
actual discrete PCI devices, so they don't have a compatible host PCI
bus address or a device link where QEMU wants to look for it. There's
also really no requirement that vfio can only be used to expose
physical devices, a new vfio bus and iommu driver could expose a
completely emulated device. To fit within the vfio framework, it
would need a kernel struct device and associated IOMMU group, but
those are easy constraints to manage.
To support such devices, which would include vGPUs, that honor the
VFIO PCI programming API, but are not necessarily backed by a unique
PCI address, add support for specifying any device in sysfs. The
vfio API already has support for probing the device type to ensure
compatibility with either vfio-pci or vfio-platform.
With this, a vfio-pci device could either be specified as:
-device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0
or
-device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0
or even
-device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:00.0
When vGPU support comes along, this might look something more like:
-device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/devices/virtual/intel-vgpu/vgpu0@0000:00:02.0
NB - This is only a made up example path
The same change is made for vfio-platform, specifying sysfsdev has
precedence over the old host option.
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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