linux/drivers
Alex Williamson 782a985d7a PCI: Introduce new device binding path using pci_dev.driver_override
The driver_override field allows us to specify the driver for a device
rather than relying on the driver to provide a positive match of the
device.  This shortcuts the existing process of looking up the vendor and
device ID, adding them to the driver new_id, binding the device, then
removing the ID, but it also provides a couple advantages.

First, the above existing process allows the driver to bind to any device
matching the new_id for the window where it's enabled.  This is often not
desired, such as the case of trying to bind a single device to a meta
driver like pci-stub or vfio-pci.  Using driver_override we can do this
deterministically using:

  echo pci-stub > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver_override
  echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver/unbind
  echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_probe

Previously we could not invoke drivers_probe after adding a device to
new_id for a driver as we get non-deterministic behavior whether the driver
we intend or the standard driver will claim the device.  Now it becomes a
deterministic process, only the driver matching driver_override will probe
the device.

To return the device to the standard driver, we simply clear the
driver_override and reprobe the device:

  echo > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver_override
  echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/driver/unbind
  echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_probe

Another advantage to this approach is that we can specify a driver override
to force a specific binding or prevent any binding.  For instance when an
IOMMU group is exposed to userspace through VFIO we require that all
devices within that group are owned by VFIO.  However, devices can be
hot-added into an IOMMU group, in which case we want to prevent the device
from binding to any driver (override driver = "none") or perhaps have it
automatically bind to vfio-pci.  With driver_override it's a simple matter
for this field to be set internally when the device is first discovered to
prevent driver matches.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-28 16:04:53 -06:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'acpi-config' 2014-04-08 21:34:51 +02:00
amba ARM: SoC: driver changes 2014-04-05 15:37:40 -07:00
ata Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-04-02 16:23:38 -07:00
atm
auxdisplay
base regmap: Fix for nodev mode 2014-04-11 13:25:08 -07:00
bcma
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-04-02 20:53:45 -07:00
bus ARM: SoC: driver changes 2014-04-05 15:37:40 -07:00
cdrom
char Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
clk == Changes to existing drivers == 2014-04-07 10:24:18 -07:00
clocksource CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
connector Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-04-02 20:53:45 -07:00
cpufreq Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq' 2014-04-08 13:28:02 +02:00
cpuidle Merge branch 'pm-cpuidle' 2014-04-08 13:27:40 +02:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2014-04-03 09:28:16 -07:00
dca
devfreq
dio
dma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2014-04-10 08:55:08 -07:00
edac Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2014-04-04 09:50:07 -07:00
eisa
extcon
firewire
firmware Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-11 11:58:33 -07:00
fmc
gpio == Changes to existing drivers == 2014-04-07 10:24:18 -07:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2014-04-08 09:52:16 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2014-04-04 09:50:07 -07:00
hsi
hv Char/Misc driver patches for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-01 16:13:21 -07:00
hwmon Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2014-04-09 08:35:31 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c Merge branch 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2014-04-09 08:45:40 -07:00
ide
idle Merge branch 'pm-cpuidle' 2014-04-08 13:27:40 +02:00
iio == Changes to existing drivers == 2014-04-07 10:24:18 -07:00
infiniband Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2014-04-12 16:51:08 -07:00
input pwm: Changes for v3.15-rc1 2014-04-05 18:32:31 -07:00
iommu IOMMU Upates for Linux v3.15 2014-04-05 18:46:26 -07:00
ipack
irqchip ARM: SoC: driver changes 2014-04-05 15:37:40 -07:00
isdn isdnloop: several buffer overflows 2014-04-08 12:41:13 -04:00
leds Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds 2014-04-10 09:06:10 -07:00
lguest drivers/lguest/page_tables.c: rename do_set_pte() 2014-04-07 16:35:52 -07:00
macintosh
mailbox
mcb
md Just a few md patches for the 3.15 merge window. 2014-04-11 17:20:38 -07:00
media [media] gpsca: remove the risk of a division by zero 2014-04-08 11:01:12 -03:00
memory
memstick
message PCI changes for the v3.15 merge window: 2014-04-01 15:14:04 -07:00
mfd MMC highlights for 3.15: 2014-04-09 08:39:39 -07:00
misc drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukdump.c: cleanup gru_dump_context() a little 2014-04-07 16:36:09 -07:00
mmc MMC highlights for 3.15: 2014-04-09 08:39:39 -07:00
mtd MTD updates for 3.15: 2014-04-07 10:17:30 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-04-12 17:31:22 -07:00
nfc
ntb ntb: Use pci_enable_msix_range() instead of pci_enable_msix() 2014-04-07 10:59:20 -07:00
nubus
of MTD updates for 3.15: 2014-04-07 10:17:30 -07:00
oprofile
parisc
parport
pci PCI: Introduce new device binding path using pci_dev.driver_override 2014-05-28 16:04:53 -06:00
pcmcia PCI changes for the v3.15 merge window: 2014-04-01 15:14:04 -07:00
phy ARM: SoC: driver changes 2014-04-05 15:37:40 -07:00
pinctrl This is the bulk of GPIO changes for v3.15: 2014-04-03 16:44:15 -07:00
platform alienware-wmi: cover some scenarios where memory allocations would fail 2014-04-10 12:11:56 -04:00
pnp More ACPI and power management updates for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-02 14:10:21 -07:00
power
powercap CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
pps
ps3
ptp net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file 2014-04-01 16:43:18 -04:00
pwm pwm: Changes for v3.15-rc1 2014-04-05 18:32:31 -07:00
rapidio rapidio: rework device hierarchy and introduce mport class of devices 2014-04-07 16:36:07 -07:00
regulator regulator: Fixes for v3.15 2014-04-11 13:30:05 -07:00
remoteproc
reset
rpmsg
rtc ARM: SoC: driver changes 2014-04-05 15:37:40 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2014-04-08 12:02:28 -07:00
sbus
scsi sym53c8xx_2: Set DID_REQUEUE return code when aborting squeue 2014-04-12 18:02:16 -07:00
sfi
sh ARM: SoC: sh driver changes 2014-04-05 15:38:41 -07:00
sn
spi spi: Fixes for v3.15 2014-04-11 13:35:49 -07:00
spmi
ssb
staging Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-04-12 17:31:22 -07:00
target Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-04-12 17:31:22 -07:00
tc
thermal Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2014-04-10 09:15:46 -07:00
tty Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
uio
usb Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2014-04-12 16:51:08 -07:00
uwb
vfio VFIO updates for v3.15 include: 2014-04-03 14:05:02 -07:00
vhost Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2014-04-12 16:51:08 -07:00
video - Call put_device() instead of kfree() - core 2014-04-10 08:52:35 -07:00
virt
virtio
vlynq
vme
w1
watchdog CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
xen Fix arm build of drivers/xen/events/ 2014-04-07 17:50:18 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig
Makefile