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Although nearly all host devices that are assigned to guests using
VFIO ("<hostdev>" devices in libvirt) are physically PCI Express
devices, until now libvirt's PCI address assignment has always
assigned them addresses on legacy PCI controllers in the guest, even
if the guest's machinetype has a PCIe root bus (e.g. q35 and
aarch64/virt).
This patch tries to assign them to an address on a PCIe controller
instead, when appropriate. First we do some preliminary checks that
might allow setting the flags without doing any extra work, and if
those conditions aren't met (and if libvirt is running privileged so
that it has proper permissions), we perform the (relatively) time
consuming task of reading the device's PCI config to see if it is an
Express device. If this is successful, the connect flags are set based
on the result, but if we aren't able to read the PCI config (most
likely due to the device not being present on the system at the time
of the check) we assume it is (or will be) an Express device, since
that is almost always the case anyway.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>