On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 12:23 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 04/15/2011 10:54 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > For KVM device assignment, we'd like to save off the state of a device > > prior to passing it to the guest and restore it later. We also want > > to allow pci_reset_funciton() to be called while the device is owned > > by the guest. This however overwrites and invalidates the struct pci_dev > > buffers, so we can't just manually call save and restore. Add generic > > interfaces for the saved state to be stored into a buffer and reloaded > > back into struct pci_dev at a later time. > > > > +/** > > + * pci_store_saved_state - Store the device saved state into a buffer > > + * @dev: - PCI device that we're dealing with > > + * > > + * Returns an opaque buffer containing the device saved state. > > + * NULL if no state or error. > > + */ > > +void *pci_store_saved_state(struct pci_dev *dev) > > This is too opaque - no type safety. You can return a struct pci_state > *, leaving it undefined in headers files.
Good idea, I'll roll this in. Thanks, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
