From patchwork Tue Aug 27 19:16:53 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Parav Pandit X-Patchwork-Id: 11117391 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8210A14E5 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4D022CF5 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731132AbfH0TRP (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:17:15 -0400 Received: from mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com ([193.47.165.129]:38904 "EHLO mellanox.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731071AbfH0TRN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:17:13 -0400 Received: from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE1 (envelope-from parav@mellanox.com) with ESMTPS (AES256-SHA encrypted); 27 Aug 2019 22:17:07 +0300 Received: from sw-mtx-036.mtx.labs.mlnx (sw-mtx-036.mtx.labs.mlnx [10.12.150.149]) by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id x7RJGuGu026842; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:17:05 +0300 From: Parav Pandit To: alex.williamson@redhat.com, jiri@mellanox.com, kwankhede@nvidia.com, cohuck@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Parav Pandit Subject: [PATCH v1 4/5] mdev: Update sysfs documentation Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:16:53 -0500 Message-Id: <20190827191654.41161-5-parav@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.19.2 In-Reply-To: <20190827191654.41161-1-parav@mellanox.com> References: <20190826204119.54386-1-parav@mellanox.com> <20190827191654.41161-1-parav@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org Updated documentation for optional read only sysfs attribute. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit --- Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst index 25eb7d5b834b..0ab03d3f5629 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ Directories and Files Under the sysfs for Each mdev Device |--- remove |--- mdev_type {link to its type} |--- vendor-specific-attributes [optional] + |--- alias [optional] * remove (write only) @@ -281,6 +282,10 @@ Example:: # echo 1 > /sys/bus/mdev/devices/$mdev_UUID/remove +* alias (read only) +Whenever a parent requested to generate an alias, each mdev is assigned a unique +alias by the mdev core. This file shows the alias of the mdev device. + Mediated device Hot plug ------------------------