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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Rusty Russell
2008-02-04 23:50:03 -05:00
parent b3369c1fb4
commit 6e5aa7efb2
8 changed files with 87 additions and 32 deletions

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@@ -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 *));