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Currently a host kick error is silently ignored and not reflected in the virtqueue of a particular virtio device. Changing the notify API for guest->host notification seems to be one prerequisite in order to be able to handle such errors in the context where the kick is triggered. This patch changes the notify API. The notify function must return a negative int return value in case the host

Rusty, here is just patch 1 (using bool as return value in notify API). Thanks. Heinz Graalfs (9): virtio_ring: change host notification API virtio_ring: let virtqueue_{kick()/notify()} return a bool virtio_net: verify if virtqueue_kick() succeeded virtio_test: verify if virtqueue_kick() succeeded virtio_ring: add new function virtqueue_is_broken() virtio_blk: verify if queue is

Rusty, here is just patch 1 (using bool as return value in notify API). Thanks. Heinz Graalfs (9): virtio_ring: change host notification API virtio_ring: let virtqueue_{kick()/notify()} return a bool virtio_net: verify if virtqueue_kick() succeeded virtio_test: verify if virtqueue_kick() succeeded virtio_ring: add new function virtqueue_is_broken() virtio_blk: verify if queue is

We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the real device ones. That was fine, until virtio-mmio came along, which could be talking to a real device (a non-SMP CPU). Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci. In particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU utilization

We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the real device ones. That was fine, until virtio-mmio came along, which could be talking to a real device (a non-SMP CPU). Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci. In particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU utilization

From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change. Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> --- including this Rusty's patch here for completeness.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change. Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> --- including this Rusty's patch here for completeness.

Hi, this patch-set solves a hang situation when a vlan network device is hot-unplugged from a KVM guest. On System z there exists no handshake mechanism between host and guest when a device is hot-unplugged. The device is removed and no further I/O is possible. The guest is notified about the hard removal with a CRW machine check. As per architecture, the host must repond to any I/O operation

Hi, this patch-set solves a hang situation when a vlan network device is hot-unplugged from a KVM guest. On System z there exists no handshake mechanism between host and guest when a device is hot-unplugged. The device is removed and no further I/O is possible. The guest is notified about the hard removal with a CRW machine check. As per architecture, the host must repond to any I/O operation

This patch lets interrupt handler functions have their natural type (ie. exactly match the data pointer type); for transition it allows the old irq_handler_t type as well. To do this it uses a gcc extension, cast-to-union, which allows a type to be cast to any type within the union. When used in a wrapper macro, it's a simple way of allowing one of several types. (Some drivers now need to

This patch lets interrupt handler functions have their natural type (ie. exactly match the data pointer type); for transition it allows the old irq_handler_t type as well. To do this it uses a gcc extension, cast-to-union, which allows a type to be cast to any type within the union. When used in a wrapper macro, it's a simple way of allowing one of several types. (Some drivers now need to

virtio: Virtio platform driver [PATCH 01/02] virtio: Break out lguest virtio code to virtio_lguest.c [PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver These patches add a virtio platform driver to the Linux kernel. This platform driver has the same role as the virtio_pci driver, but instead of building on top of emulated PCI this driver is making use of the platform bus together with driver

virtio: Virtio platform driver [PATCH 01/02] virtio: Break out lguest virtio code to virtio_lguest.c [PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver These patches add a virtio platform driver to the Linux kernel. This platform driver has the same role as the virtio_pci driver, but instead of building on top of emulated PCI this driver is making use of the platform bus together with driver

The following changes since commit 3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/.../paulus/powerpc are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git master

The following changes since commit 3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/.../paulus/powerpc are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git master

virtio: Virtio platform driver [PATCH 01/02] virtio: Break out lguest virtio code to virtio_lguest.c [PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver These patches add a virtio platform driver to the Linux kernel. This platform driver has the same role as the virtio_pci driver, but instead of building on top of emulated PCI this driver is making use of the platform bus together with driver

virtio: Virtio platform driver [PATCH 01/02] virtio: Break out lguest virtio code to virtio_lguest.c [PATCH 02/02] virtio: Add virtio platform driver These patches add a virtio platform driver to the Linux kernel. This platform driver has the same role as the virtio_pci driver, but instead of building on top of emulated PCI this driver is making use of the platform bus together with driver

This fixes virtio on Xen guests as well as on any other platform that uses virtio_pci on which physical addresses don't match bus addresses. This can be tested with: virtme-run --xen xen --kimg arch/x86/boot/bzImage --console using virtme from here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git Without these patches, the guest hangs forever. With these patches,

This fixes virtio on Xen guests as well as on any other platform that uses virtio_pci on which physical addresses don't match bus addresses. This can be tested with: virtme-run --xen xen --kimg arch/x86/boot/bzImage --console using virtme from here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git Without these patches, the guest hangs forever. With these patches,

This fixes virtio on Xen guests as well as on any other platform that uses virtio_pci on which physical addresses don't match bus addresses. This can be tested with: virtme-run --xen xen --kimg arch/x86/boot/bzImage --console using virtme from here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git Without these patches, the guest hangs forever. With these patches,