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Allow writing a complete set of masks to ap_config. Doing so will
cause the vfio-ap driver to replace the vfio-ap mediated device's
matrix masks with the given set of masks. If the given state cannot
be set, then no changes are made to the vfio-ap mediated device.
The format of the data written to ap_config is as follows:
{amask},{dmask},{cmask}\n
\n is a newline character.
amask, dmask, and cmask are masks identifying which adapters, domains,
and control domains should be assigned to the mediated device.
The format of a mask is as follows:
0xNN..NN
Where NN..NN is 64 hexadecimal characters representing a 256-bit value.
The leftmost (highest order) bit represents adapter/domain 0.
For an example set of masks that represent your mdev's current
configuration, simply cat ap_config.
This attribute is intended to be used by an mdevctl callout script
supporting the mdev type vfio_ap-passthrough to atomically update a
vfio-ap mediated device's state.
Signed-off-by: "Jason J. Herne" <jjherne@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415152555.13152-5-jjherne@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.