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libvirt uses the new_id PCI sysfs interface to bind a PCI stub driver to a PCI device. The new_id interface is known to be buggy and racey, hence a more deterministic interface was introduced in the 3.12 kernel: driver_override. For more details see https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-June/msg02124.html For more details about the driver_override interface and examples of its usage, see https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c?h=v3.12&id=782a985d7af26db39e86070d28f987cad21313c0 This patch adds support for the driver_override interface by - adding new virPCIDevice{BindTo,UnbindFrom}StubWithOverride functions that use the driver_override interface - renames the existing virPCIDevice{BindTo,UnbindFrom}Stub functions to virPCIDevice{BindTo,UnbindFrom}StubWithNewid to perserve existing behavior on new_id interface - changes virPCIDevice{BindTo,UnbindFrom}Stub function to call one of the above depending on availability of driver_override The patch includes a bit of duplicate code, but allows for easily dropping the new_id code once support for older kernels is no longer desired. Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
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>