Now that system reset uses a three-phase-reset, update the reset
documentation to include a section describing how this works.
Include documentation of the current major beartrap in reset, which
is that only devices on the qbus tree will get automatically reset.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
---
This merely documents the current situation, and says nothing
about what we might like to do with it in future...
---
docs/devel/reset.rst | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/reset.rst b/docs/devel/reset.rst
index d4e79718bac..2ea85e7779b 100644
--- a/docs/devel/reset.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/reset.rst
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ whole group can be reset consistently. Each individual member
object does not
have to care about others; in particular, problems of order (which object is
reset first) are addressed.
-As of now DeviceClass and BusClass implement this interface.
-
+The main object types which implement this interface are DeviceClass
+and BusClass.
Triggering reset
----------------
@@ -288,3 +288,43 @@ There is currently 2 cases where this function is used:
2. *hot bus change*; it means an existing live device is added, moved or
removed in the bus hierarchy. At the moment, it occurs only in the raspi
machines for changing the sdbus used by sd card.
+
+Reset of the complete system
+----------------------------
+
+Reset of the complete system is a little complicated. The typical
+flow is:
+
+1. Code which wishes to reset the entire system does so by calling
+ ``qemu_system_reset_request()``. This schedules a reset, but the
+ reset will happen asynchronously after the function returns.
+ That makes this safe to call from, for example, device models.
+
+2. The function which is called to make the reset happen is
+ ``qemu_system_reset()``. Generally only core system code should
+ call this directly.
+
+3. ``qemu_system_reset()`` calls the ``MachineClass::reset`` method of
+ the current machine, if it has one. That method must call
+ ``qemu_devices_reset()``. If the machine has no reset method,
+ ``qemu_system_reset()`` calls ``qemu_devices_reset()`` directly.
+
+4. ``qemu_devices_reset()`` performs a reset of the system, using
+ the three-phase mechanism listed above. It resets all objects
+ that were registered with it using ``qemu_register_resettable()``.
+ It also calls all the functions registered with it using
+ ``qemu_register_reset()``. Those functions are called during the
+ "hold" phase of this reset.
+
+5. The most important object that this reset resets is the
+ 'sysbus' bus. The sysbus bus is the root of the qbus tree. This
+ means that all devices on the sysbus are reset, and all their
+ child buses, and all the devices on those child buses.
+
+6. Devices which are not on the qbus tree are *not* automatically
+ reset! (The most obvious example of this is CPU objects, but
+ anything that directly inherits from ``TYPE_OBJECT`` or ``TYPE_DEVICE``
+ rather than from ``TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE`` or some other plugs-into-a-bus
+ type will be in this category.) You need to therefore arrange for these
+ to be reset in some other way (e.g. using ``qemu_register_resettable()``
+ or ``qemu_register_reset()``).
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