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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -0700 |
| commit | 467590e055f5c714fb457803250415879d0da9e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7533a26dcd19023d5eeac54f62432097c85f4ef3 /Documentation | |
| parent | 763f96944c954ce0e00a10a7bdfe29adbe4f92eb (diff) | |
| parent | c1abca96b252a9627f99f39215b84e5de92bf1e3 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'vfio-v4.18-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:
- Bind type1 task tracking to group_leader to facilitate vCPU hotplug
in QEMU (Alex Williamson)
- Sample mdev display drivers, including region-based host and guest
Linux drivers and bochs compatible dmabuf device
(Gerd Hoffmann)
- Fix vfio-platform reset module leak (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- vfio-platform error message consistency (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Global checking for mdev uuid collisions rather than per parent
device (Alex Williamson)
- Use match_string() helper (Yisheng Xie)
- vfio-platform PM domain fixes (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Fix sample mbochs driver build dependency (Arnd Bergmann)
* tag 'vfio-v4.18-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
samples: mbochs: add DMA_SHARED_BUFFER dependency
vfio: platform: Fix using devices in PM Domains
vfio: use match_string() helper
vfio/mdev: Re-order sysfs attribute creation
vfio/mdev: Check globally for duplicate devices
vfio: platform: Make printed error messages more consistent
vfio: platform: Fix reset module leak in error path
sample: vfio bochs vbe display (host device for bochs-drm)
sample: vfio mdev display - guest driver
sample: vfio mdev display - host device
vfio/type1: Fix task tracking for QEMU vCPU hotplug
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt b/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt index 1b3950346532..c3f69bcaf96e 100644 --- a/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt +++ b/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt @@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ The functions in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows: * create: allocate basic resources in a driver for a mediated device * remove: free resources in a driver when a mediated device is destroyed +(Note that mdev-core provides no implicit serialization of create/remove +callbacks per mdev parent device, per mdev type, or any other categorization. +Vendor drivers are expected to be fully asynchronous in this respect or +provide their own internal resource protection.) + The callbacks in the mdev_parent_ops structure are as follows: * open: open callback of mediated device |