1. 30 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 02 5月, 2008 2 次提交
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      virtio: explicit advertisement of driver features · c45a6816
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
      some flaws in the API: in particular, we assume that feature
      negotiation is complete once a driver's probe function returns.
      
      There is nothing in the API to require this, however, and even I
      didn't notice when it was violated.
      
      So instead, we require the driver to specify what features it supports
      in a table, we can then move the feature negotiation into the virtio
      core.  The intersection of device and driver features are presented in
      a new 'features' bitmap in the struct virtio_device.
      
      Note that this highlights the difference between Linux unsigned-long
      bitmaps where each unsigned long is in native endian, and a
      straight-forward little-endian array of bytes.
      
      Drivers can still remove feature bits in their probe routine if they
      really have to.
      
      API changes:
      - dev->config->feature() no longer gets and acks a feature.
      - drivers should advertise their features in the 'feature_table' field
      - use virtio_has_feature() for extra sanity when checking feature bits
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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      virtio: change config to guest endian. · 72e61eb4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
      some flaws in the API, in particular how easy it is to break big
      endian machines.
      
      The virtio config space was originally chosen to be little-endian,
      because we thought the config might be part of the PCI config space
      for virtio_pci.  It's actually a separate mmio region, so that
      argument holds little water; as only x86 is currently using the virtio
      mechanism, we can change this (but must do so now, before the
      impending s390 merge).
      
      API changes:
      - __virtio_config_val() just becomes a striaght vdev->config_get() call.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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  3. 04 2月, 2008 3 次提交
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      virtio: reset function · 6e5aa7ef
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      A reset function solves three problems:
      
      1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
         guest driver without rebooting the guest.
      
      2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
         we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and
      
      3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.
      
      So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
      feature bits is via reset.
      
      We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
      the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
      remove function.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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      virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return. · 18445c4d
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
      calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.
      
      Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
      now returns void, rather than a boolean.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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      virtio: simplify config mechanism. · a586d4f6
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
      seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
      layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
      at the end.
      
      The main driver-visible changes:
      1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
      2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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  4. 23 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Virtio interface · ec3d41c4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow
      common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O
      mechanisms.  It will no-doubt need further enhancement.
      
      The virtio drivers add buffers to virtio queues; as the buffers are consumed
      the driver "interrupt" callbacks are invoked.
      
      There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query
      to get setup information from the host.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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