PCI/IOV: Add pci-pf-stub driver for PFs that only enable VFs
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:47:16 +0000 (16:47 -0500)
committerBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:47:16 +0000 (16:47 -0500)
commita8ccf8a666639ca9184e8b23d515d9fbe722a27d
treeebf28d9ee3edfff5db9bf49bae2422d674f95ebf
parent8effc395c2097e258fcedfc02ed4a66d45fb4238
PCI/IOV: Add pci-pf-stub driver for PFs that only enable VFs

Some SR-IOV PF devices provide no functionality other than acting as a
means of enabling VFs.  For these devices, we want to enable the VFs and
assign them to guest virtual machines, but there's no need to have a driver
for the PF itself.

Add a new pci-pf-stub driver to claim those PF devices and provide the
generic VF enable functionality.  An administrator can use the sysfs
"sriov_numvfs" file to enable VFs, then assign them to guests.

For now I only have one example ID provided by Amazon in terms of devices
that require this functionality.  The general idea is that in the future we
will see other devices added as vendors come up with devices where the PF
is more or less just a lightweight shim used to allocate VFs.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
[bhelgaas: changelog]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
drivers/pci/Kconfig
drivers/pci/Makefile
drivers/pci/pci-pf-stub.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/pci_ids.h