virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vrings

There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
add a new hook to do this.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Shirley Ma
2010-01-29 03:19:05 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 28aecb9d77
commit f9bfbebf34
2 changed files with 29 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ struct virtqueue {
* This re-enables callbacks; it returns "false" if there are pending
* buffers in the queue, to detect a possible race between the driver
* checking for more work, and enabling callbacks.
* @detach_unused_buf: detach first unused buffer
* vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
* Returns NULL or the "data" token handed to add_buf
*
* Locking rules are straightforward: the driver is responsible for
* locking. No two operations may be invoked simultaneously, with the exception
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ struct virtqueue_ops {
void (*disable_cb)(struct virtqueue *vq);
bool (*enable_cb)(struct virtqueue *vq);
void *(*detach_unused_buf)(struct virtqueue *vq);
};
/**