[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/7] vfio: capability chains, sparse mmap, device specific regions

[Alex Williamson]

This is the QEMU compliment to the vfio kernel capability chain
series.  This is RFC since it depends on those non-upstream kernel
changes.  Patch 1/ will be posted separately, it's somewhat unrelated,
but is in my build tree so I include it here for anyone that wants to
build this series.

This series includes sparse mmap support for avoiding mmaps over the
MSI-X vector table and device specific memory regions for IGD OpRegion
support.  MemoryRegions are significantly generalize for the former,
to make it really easy for each vfio region to be backed by none or
more mmap MemoryRegion.  The MSI-X vector table then either adds an
mmap region, or not via a legacy quirk or explicit sparse mmap
support.

IGD OpRegions are exposed as new device specific region, which simply
entails searching regions past those known for matching type and
sub-type regions that we know how to handle.  Writes to the OpRegion
register (ASL storage) pop the host OpRegion into VM system memory.
This isn't exactly like how real hardware works, but it makes for a
convenient implementation.  Alternatively we could pass the entire
OpRegion table via fw_cfg, but this makes write through to the host
impossible (if that's even useful).  This is certainly something that
I'm looking for comments about in this series.  Thanks,

Alex

---

Alex Williamson (7):
      vfio: Add sysfsdev property for pci & platform
      vfio: Wrap VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO
      vfio: Generalize region support
      vfio/pci: Convert all MemoryRegion to dynamic alloc and consistent 
functions
      linux-headers/vfio: Update for proposed capabilities list
      vfio: Enable sparse mmap capability
      vfio/pci: Find and expose Intel IGD OpRegion


 hw/arm/sysbus-fdt.c           |    2 
 hw/vfio/common.c              |  249 +++++++++++++++++--
 hw/vfio/pci-quirks.c          |   62 ++---
 hw/vfio/pci.c                 |  535 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 hw/vfio/pci.h                 |   11 -
 hw/vfio/platform.c            |  126 +++-------
 include/hw/vfio/vfio-common.h |   29 ++
 linux-headers/linux/vfio.h    |   98 +++++++-
 trace-events                  |   12 +
 9 files changed, 719 insertions(+), 405 deletions(-)