On Wed, 04/23 10:17, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 04:55:15PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > If guest driver behaves abnormally, emulation code could mark the device
> > as "broken".
> >
> > Once "broken" is set, device emulation will typically wait for a reset
> > command and ignore any other operations, but it could also return error
> > responds. In other words, whether and how does guest know about this
> > error status is device specific.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
>
> We really need a flag to notify guest about this state though.
> We should add this in virtio 1.0.
> For now, how about clearing DRIVER_OK?
>From Public Review Draft 02:
DRIVER_OK (4) Indicates that the driver is set up and ready to drive the
device.
Does clearing it here have any effect on guest behavior?
We could add a DEVICE_OK bit and let the driver check it before passing vq.
> This way we don't need to touch so much code.
Don't understand how clearing DRIVER_OK can avoid exit(). Could you explain a
bit?
Thanks,
Fam
>
> > ---
> > hw/virtio/virtio.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> > include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 3 +++
> > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > index aeabf3a..222bb73 100644
> > --- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > @@ -538,6 +538,16 @@ void virtio_set_status(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t val)
> > vdev->status = val;
> > }
> >
> > +bool virtio_broken(VirtIODevice *vdev)
> > +{
> > + return vdev->broken;
> > +}
> > +
> > +void virtio_set_broken(VirtIODevice *vdev)
> > +{
> > + vdev->broken = true;
> > +}
> > +
> > void virtio_reset(void *opaque)
> > {
> > VirtIODevice *vdev = opaque;
> > @@ -554,6 +564,7 @@ void virtio_reset(void *opaque)
> > vdev->queue_sel = 0;
> > vdev->status = 0;
> > vdev->isr = 0;
> > + vdev->broken = false;
> > vdev->config_vector = VIRTIO_NO_VECTOR;
> > virtio_notify_vector(vdev, vdev->config_vector);
> >
> > @@ -995,6 +1006,7 @@ void virtio_init(VirtIODevice *vdev, const char *name,
> > vdev->status = 0;
> > vdev->isr = 0;
> > vdev->queue_sel = 0;
> > + vdev->broken = 0;
> > vdev->config_vector = VIRTIO_NO_VECTOR;
> > vdev->vq = g_malloc0(sizeof(VirtQueue) * VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_MAX);
> > vdev->vm_running = runstate_is_running();
> > diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
> > index 3e54e90..5b16faa 100644
> > --- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
> > +++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
> > @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ struct VirtIODevice
> > bool vm_running;
> > VMChangeStateEntry *vmstate;
> > char *bus_name;
> > + bool broken;
> > };
> >
> > typedef struct VirtioDeviceClass {
> > @@ -211,6 +212,8 @@ void virtio_queue_notify(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n);
> > uint16_t virtio_queue_vector(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n);
> > void virtio_queue_set_vector(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n, uint16_t vector);
> > void virtio_set_status(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t val);
> > +void virtio_set_broken(VirtIODevice *vdev);
> > +bool virtio_broken(VirtIODevice *vdev);
> > void virtio_reset(void *opaque);
> > void virtio_update_irq(VirtIODevice *vdev);
> > int virtio_set_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint32_t val);
> > --
> > 1.9.2
