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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-02-04 23:50:03 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-02-04 23:50:03 +1100
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virtio: reset function
A reset function solves three problems: 1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a guest driver without rebooting the guest. 2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset, we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and 3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers. So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove feature bits is via reset. We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues: the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its remove function. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
index 81f828a..d581b29 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ struct virtio_device;
* @set_status: write the status byte
* vdev: the virtio_device
* status: the new status byte
+ * @reset: reset the device
+ * vdev: the virtio device
+ * After this, status and feature negotiation must be done again
* @find_vq: find a virtqueue and instantiate it.
* vdev: the virtio_device
* index: the 0-based virtqueue number in case there's more than one.
@@ -59,6 +62,7 @@ struct virtio_config_ops
const void *buf, unsigned len);
u8 (*get_status)(struct virtio_device *vdev);
void (*set_status)(struct virtio_device *vdev, u8 status);
+ void (*reset)(struct virtio_device *vdev);
struct virtqueue *(*find_vq)(struct virtio_device *vdev,
unsigned index,
void (*callback)(struct virtqueue *));
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