Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 14/19] xen/passthrough: dt: Add new domctl XEN_DOMCTL_assign_dt_device

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 17.06.14 at 15:48, <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not sure why we function is used but from the DT pass-through POV,
> we only need to ask the hypervisor to assign this specific device to the
> guest. The hypercall will return "ok" if it has succeeded or an error if
> the device is not protected (i.e not behind an IOMMU). I don't see why
> we should have a test-assign hypercall in this case...

The reason for its existence isn't entirely clear to me either - you may
want to ping whoever added this.

> Anyway, I'm fine to introduce the hypercall for consistency but I don't
> plan to use it in the toolstack because it's pointless.

It's the tools maintainers' call in the end, but my advice would be to not
have it used in the PCI case, but not in the DT one. Either rip it out on
the PCI side too, or have it be called even if not strictly needed.

Jan


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