On 9/24/25 1:22 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 09:16:32AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:

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On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM Daniel Jurgens [off-list ref] wrote:

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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 <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Shahar Shitrit <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
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[...]

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 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.

The idea was that each transport would implement the callbacks, and we
have indirection at the virtio_device level. Similar to the config_ops.
So the drivers stay transport agnostic. I know these are PCI specific
now, but thought it should be implemented generically.

These could go in config ops. But I thought it was better to isolate
them in a new _ops structure.

An earlier implementation had the net driver accessing the admin_ops
directly. But Parav thought this was better.