[PATCH v3 09/24] vfio/pci: Notify PCI subsystem about devices preserved across Live Update

David Matlack
2026-03-23T23:58:59Z

Notify the PCI subsystem about devices vfio-pci is preserving across
Live Update by registering the vfio-pci liveupdate file handler with the
PCI subsystem's FLB handler.

Notably this will ensure that devices preserved through vfio-pci will
have their PCI bus numbers preserved across Live Update, allowing VFIO
to use BDF as a key to identify the device across the Live Update and
(in the future) allow the device to continue DMA operations across
the Live Update.

This also enables VFIO to detect that a device was preserved before
userspace first retrieves the file from it, which will be used in
subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
---
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_liveupdate.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_liveupdate.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_liveupdate.c
index 4b83a02401aa..b960ec3ffbf2 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_liveupdate.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_liveupdate.c
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@
* interrupts on the device will cause the ``reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC)``
* syscall (to initiate the kexec) to fail.
*
+ * In addition, the device must meet all of the restrictions imposed by the
+ * core PCI layer documented at :doc:`/PCI/liveupdate`.
+ *
* Preservation Behavior
* =====================
*
@@ -136,23 +139,37 @@ static int vfio_pci_liveupdate_preserve(struct liveupdate_file_op_args *args)
struct vfio_pci_core_device_ser *ser;
struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev;
struct pci_dev *pdev;
+ int ret;

vdev = container_of(device, struct vfio_pci_core_device, vdev);
pdev = vdev->pdev;

+ ret = pci_liveupdate_preserve(pdev);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
ser = kho_alloc_preserve(sizeof(*ser));
- if (IS_ERR(ser))
- return PTR_ERR(ser);
+ if (IS_ERR(ser)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(ser);
+ goto err_unpreserve;
+ }

ser->bdf = pci_dev_id(pdev);
ser->domain = pci_domain_nr(pdev->bus);

args->serialized_data = virt_to_phys(ser);
return 0;
+
+err_unpreserve:
+ pci_liveupdate_unpreserve(pdev);
+ return ret;
}

static void vfio_pci_liveupdate_unpreserve(struct liveupdate_file_op_args *args)
{
+ struct vfio_device *device = vfio_device_from_file(args->file);
+
+ pci_liveupdate_unpreserve(to_pci_dev(device->dev));
kho_unpreserve_free(phys_to_virt(args->serialized_data));
}

@@ -213,6 +230,10 @@ static int vfio_pci_liveupdate_retrieve(struct liveupdate_file_op_args *args)
if (!device)
return -ENODEV;

+ ret = pci_liveupdate_retrieve(to_pci_dev(device->dev));
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+
file = vfio_device_liveupdate_cdev_open(device);
if (IS_ERR(file)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(file);
@@ -233,6 +254,9 @@ static bool vfio_pci_liveupdate_can_finish(struct liveupdate_file_op_args *args)

static void vfio_pci_liveupdate_finish(struct liveupdate_file_op_args *args)
{
+ struct vfio_device *device = vfio_device_from_file(args->file);
+
+ pci_liveupdate_finish(to_pci_dev(device->dev));
kho_restore_free(phys_to_virt(args->serialized_data));
}

@@ -257,13 +281,23 @@ int __init vfio_pci_liveupdate_init(void)
int ret;

ret = liveupdate_register_file_handler(&vfio_pci_liveupdate_fh);
- if (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
- return ret;
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_return;
+
+ ret = pci_liveupdate_register_flb(&vfio_pci_liveupdate_fh);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_unregister;

return 0;
+
+err_unregister:
+ liveupdate_unregister_file_handler(&vfio_pci_liveupdate_fh);
+err_return:
+ return (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) ? 0 : ret;
}

void vfio_pci_liveupdate_cleanup(void)
{
- liveupdate_unregister_file_handler(&vfio_pci_liveupdate_fh);
+ pci_liveupdate_unregister_flb(&vfio_pci_liveupdate_fh);
+ liveupdate_unregister_file_handler(&vfio_pci_liveupdate_fh);
}
--
2.53.0.983.g0bb29b3bc5-goog