On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 09:16:32AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM Daniel Jurgens <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Currently querying and setting capabilities is restricted to a single
> > capability and contained within the virtio PCI driver. However, each
> > device type has generic and device specific capabilities, that may be
> > queried and set. In subsequent patches virtio_net will query and set
> > flow filter capabilities.
> >
> > Move the admin related definitions to a new header file. It needs to be
> > abstracted away from the PCI specifics to be used by upper layer
> > drivers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Jurgens <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Shahar Shitrit <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> >  size_t virtio_max_dma_size(const struct virtio_device *vdev);
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_admin.h b/include/linux/virtio_admin.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..bbf543d20be4
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/include/linux/virtio_admin.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > + *
> > + * Header file for virtio admin operations
> > + */
> > +#include <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> > +
> > +#ifndef _LINUX_VIRTIO_ADMIN_H
> > +#define _LINUX_VIRTIO_ADMIN_H
> > +
> > +struct virtio_device;
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * VIRTIO_CAP_IN_LIST - Check if a capability is supported in the 
> > capability list
> > + * @cap_list: Pointer to capability list structure containing 
> > supported_caps array
> > + * @cap: Capability ID to check
> > + *
> > + * The cap_list contains a supported_caps array of little-endian 64-bit 
> > integers
> > + * where each bit represents a capability. Bit 0 of the first element 
> > represents
> > + * capability ID 0, bit 1 represents capability ID 1, and so on.
> > + *
> > + * Return: 1 if capability is supported, 0 otherwise
> > + */
> > +#define VIRTIO_CAP_IN_LIST(cap_list, cap) \
> > +       (!!(1 & (le64_to_cpu(cap_list->supported_caps[cap / 64]) >> cap % 
> > 64)))
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * struct virtio_admin_ops - Operations for virtio admin functionality
> > + *
> > + * This structure contains function pointers for performing administrative
> > + * operations on virtio devices. All data and caps pointers must be 
> > allocated
> > + * on the heap by the caller.
> > + */
> > +struct virtio_admin_ops {
> > +       /**
> > +        * @cap_id_list_query: Query the list of supported capability IDs
> > +        * @vdev: The virtio device to query
> > +        * @data: Pointer to result structure (must be heap allocated)
> > +        * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure
> > +        */
> > +       int (*cap_id_list_query)(struct virtio_device *vdev,
> > +                                struct 
> > virtio_admin_cmd_query_cap_id_result *data);
> > +       /**
> > +        * @cap_get: Get capability data for a specific capability ID
> > +        * @vdev: The virtio device
> > +        * @id: Capability ID to retrieve
> > +        * @caps: Pointer to capability data structure (must be heap 
> > allocated)
> > +        * @cap_size: Size of the capability data structure
> > +        * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure
> > +        */
> > +       int (*cap_get)(struct virtio_device *vdev,
> > +                      u16 id,
> > +                      void *caps,
> > +                      size_t cap_size);
> > +       /**
> > +        * @cap_set: Set capability data for a specific capability ID
> > +        * @vdev: The virtio device
> > +        * @id: Capability ID to set
> > +        * @caps: Pointer to capability data structure (must be heap 
> > allocated)
> > +        * @cap_size: Size of the capability data structure
> > +        * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure
> > +        */
> > +       int (*cap_set)(struct virtio_device *vdev,
> > +                      u16 id,
> > +                      const void *caps,
> > +                      size_t cap_size);
> > +};
> 
> Looking at this, it's nothing admin virtqueue specific, I wonder why
> it is not part of virtio_config_ops.
> 
> Thanks

cap things are admin commands. But what I do not get is why they
need to be callbacks.

The only thing about admin commands that is pci specific is finding
the admin vq.

I'd expect an API for that in config then, and the rest of code can
be completely transport independent.


-- 
MST


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