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* gsp-phys: mdev-owned backend lifecycle (P1)Arthur Hanson Rasmusson11 days
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the gsp_phys_mdev_owned ownership selector (default 0: unchanged load-time module-owned claim/boot). With 1, module load claims nothing; the first mdev create starts a refcounted backend session whose claim+boot runs asynchronously from a work item, so mdev create and init_work never block. The last mdev remove releases after the emulation thread is stopped. Failures are fail-open: the backend stays OFF and the mdev keeps serving the emulation path. nv_vgpu_exit now gates the session STOPPING under the session lock, drains the emulation threads via mdev_unregister_driver(), and only then releases the claim; the module-owned path keeps its previous release position. A start while STOPPING is refused and a concurrent second stopper cannot release twice. No forwarding is added.
* Open-IOV: initial public releaseOpen-IOV2026-09-23
Open-IOV virtualizes NVIDIA GPUs so that unmodified guest drivers run with real GPU functionality - CUDA first, 3D and video to follow - on unmodified hosts, without a proprietary vGPU license and without patching any driver, firmware or hypervisor. Core principle: emulate the interface, pass through the work. kernel/ open-iov-vfio.ko - host VFIO mdev driver: virtual GPU device (PCI config space, BAR shadows, MSI-X), GSP boot emulation, GSP-RM message-queue/RPC emulation, memory model (GPU-VA to guest-PA discovery) and the semaphore-completion service that advances guest UVM progress. userspace/ libiov.so management API and examples. tools/ guest diagnostics, firmware analysis wrappers, RM probes. scripts/ stack manager, VM harness, build/load/test automation. config/ hardware/version profiles (the portability surface). docs/ documentation tree - start at docs/README.md. wiki/ long-form firmware and protocol deep dives. Status: initialization works end to end for a stock 570.144 Linux guest on Turing (TU104): driver probe, nvidia-smi, the full GSP-RM control battery, object creation and the early CUDA/UVM start-up path. GPU work forwarding - the step that makes CUDA kernels execute on real hardware - is the active work item; see docs/04-implementation/01-known-knowns-and-unknowns.md. License: BSD-3-Clause for the project; GPL-2.0 for kernel modules that link GPL-only kernel interfaces. See LICENSE and docs/09-reference/legal-and-licensing.md.