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2013-07-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds1-0/+4
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "This is a re-do of the net-next pull request for the current merge window. The only difference from the one I made the other day is that this has Eliezer's interface renames and the timeout handling changes made based upon your feedback, as well as a few bug fixes that have trickeled in. Highlights: 1) Low latency device polling, eliminating the cost of interrupt handling and context switches. Allows direct polling of a network device from socket operations, such as recvmsg() and poll(). Currently ixgbe, mlx4, and bnx2x support this feature. Full high level description, performance numbers, and design in commit 0a4db187a999 ("Merge branch 'll_poll'") From Eliezer Tamir. 2) With the routing cache removed, ip_check_mc_rcu() gets exercised more than ever before in the case where we have lots of multicast addresses. Use a hash table instead of a simple linked list, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Add driver for Atheros CQA98xx 802.11ac wireless devices, from Bartosz Markowski, Janusz Dziedzic, Kalle Valo, Marek Kwaczynski, Marek Puzyniak, Michal Kazior, and Sujith Manoharan. 4) Support reporting the TUN device persist flag to userspace, from Pavel Emelyanov. 5) Allow controlling network device VF link state using netlink, from Rony Efraim. 6) Support GRE tunneling in openvswitch, from Pravin B Shelar. 7) Adjust SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF for modern times, from Daniel Borkmann and Eric Dumazet. 8) Allow controlling of TCP quickack behavior on a per-route basis, from Cong Wang. 9) Several bug fixes and improvements to vxlan from Stephen Hemminger, Pravin B Shelar, and Mike Rapoport. In particular, support receiving on multiple UDP ports. 10) Major cleanups, particular in the area of debugging and cookie lifetime handline, to the SCTP protocol code. From Daniel Borkmann. 11) Allow packets to cross network namespaces when traversing tunnel devices. From Nicolas Dichtel. 12) Allow monitoring netlink traffic via AF_PACKET sockets, in a manner akin to how we monitor real network traffic via ptype_all. From Daniel Borkmann. 13) Several bug fixes and improvements for the new alx device driver, from Johannes Berg. 14) Fix scalability issues in the netem packet scheduler's time queue, by using an rbtree. From Eric Dumazet. 15) Several bug fixes in TCP loss recovery handling, from Yuchung Cheng. 16) Add support for GSO segmentation of MPLS packets, from Simon Horman. 17) Make network notifiers have a real data type for the opaque pointer that's passed into them. Use this to properly handle network device flag changes in arp_netdev_event(). From Jiri Pirko and Timo Teräs. 18) Convert several drivers over to module_pci_driver(), from Peter Huewe. 19) tcp_fixup_rcvbuf() can loop 500 times over loopback, just use a O(1) calculation instead. From Eric Dumazet. 20) Support setting of explicit tunnel peer addresses in ipv6, just like ipv4. From Nicolas Dichtel. 21) Protect x86 BPF JIT against spraying attacks, from Eric Dumazet. 22) Prevent a single high rate flow from overruning an individual cpu during RX packet processing via selective flow shedding. From Willem de Bruijn. 23) Don't use spinlocks in TCP md5 signing fast paths, from Eric Dumazet. 24) Don't just drop GSO packets which are above the TBF scheduler's burst limit, chop them up so they are in-bounds instead. Also from Eric Dumazet. 25) VLAN offloads are missed when configured on top of a bridge, fix from Vlad Yasevich. 26) Support IPV6 in ping sockets. From Lorenzo Colitti. 27) Receive flow steering targets should be updated at poll() time too, from David Majnemer. 28) Fix several corner case regressions in PMTU/redirect handling due to the routing cache removal, from Timo Teräs. 29) We have to be mindful of ipv4 mapped ipv6 sockets in upd_v6_push_pending_frames(). From Hannes Frederic Sowa. 30) Fix L2TP sequence number handling bugs, from James Chapman." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1214 commits) drivers/net: caif: fix wrong rtnl_is_locked() usage drivers/net: enic: release rtnl_lock on error-path vhost-net: fix use-after-free in vhost_net_flush net: mv643xx_eth: do not use port number as platform device id net: sctp: confirm route during forward progress virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing virtio: support unlocked queue poll net/cadence/macb: fix bug/typo in extracting gem_irq_read_clear bit Documentation: Fix references to defunct linux-net@vger.kernel.org net/fs: change busy poll time accounting net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll bridge: fix some kernel warning in multicast timer sfc: Fix memory leak when discarding scattered packets sit: fix tunnel update via netlink dt:net:stmmac: Add dt specific phy reset callback support. dt:net:stmmac: Add support to dwmac version 3.610 and 3.710 dt:net:stmmac: Allocate platform data only if its NULL. net:stmmac: fix memleak in the open method ipv6: rt6_check_neigh should successfully verify neigh if no NUD information are available net: ipv6: fix wrong ping_v6_sendmsg return value ...
2013-07-09virtio: support unlocked queue pollMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+4
This adds a way to check ring empty state after enable_cb outside any locks. Will be used by virtio_net. Note: there's room for more optimization: caller is likely to have a memory barrier already, which means we might be able to get rid of a barrier here. Deferring this optimization until we do some benchmarking. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-20virtio: remove virtqueue_add_buf().Rusty Russell1-7/+0
All users changed to virtqueue_add_sg() or virtqueue_add_outbuf/inbuf. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-05-03Merge tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull virtio & lguest updates from Rusty Russell: "Lots of virtio work which wasn't quite ready for last merge window. Plus I dived into lguest again, reworking the pagetable code so we can move the switcher page: our fixmaps sometimes take more than 2MB now..." Ugh. Annoying conflicts with the tcm_vhost -> vhost_scsi rename. Hopefully correctly resolved. * tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (57 commits) caif_virtio: Remove bouncing email addresses lguest: improve code readability in lg_cpu_start. virtio-net: fill only rx queues which are being used lguest: map Switcher below fixmap. lguest: cache last cpu we ran on. lguest: map Switcher text whenever we allocate a new pagetable. lguest: don't share Switcher PTE pages between guests. lguest: expost switcher_pages array (as lg_switcher_pages). lguest: extract shadow PTE walking / allocating. lguest: make check_gpte et. al return bool. lguest: assume Switcher text is a single page. lguest: rename switcher_page to switcher_pages. lguest: remove RESERVE_MEM constant. lguest: check vaddr not pgd for Switcher protection. lguest: prepare to make SWITCHER_ADDR a variable. virtio: console: replace EMFILE with EBUSY for already-open port virtio-scsi: reset virtqueue affinity when doing cpu hotplug virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support virtio-scsi: push vq lock/unlock into virtscsi_vq_done virtio-scsi: pass struct virtio_scsi to virtqueue completion function ...
2013-03-22virtio: remove obsolete virtqueue_get_queue_index()Rusty Russell1-6/+0
You can access it directly now, since 3.8: v3.7-rc1-13-g06ca287 'virtio: move queue_index and num_free fields into core struct virtqueue.' Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_outbuf / virtqueue_add_inbuf.Rusty Russell1-0/+10
These are specialized versions of virtqueue_add_buf(), which cover over 80% of cases and are far clearer. In particular, the scatterlists passed to these functions don't have to be clean (ie. we ignore end markers). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-20virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_sgs, to add multiple sgs.Rusty Russell1-0/+7
virtio_scsi can really use this, to avoid the current hack of copying the whole sg array. Some other things get slightly neater, too. This causes a slowdown in virtqueue_add_buf(), which is implemented as a wrapper. This is addressed in the next patches. for i in `seq 50`; do /usr/bin/time -f 'Wall time:%e' ./vringh_test --indirect --eventidx --parallel --fast-vringh; done 2>&1 | stats --trim-outliers: Before: Using CPUS 0 and 3 Guest: notified 0, pinged 39009-39063(39062) Host: notified 39009-39063(39062), pinged 0 Wall time:1.700000-1.950000(1.723542) After: Using CPUS 0 and 3 Guest: notified 0, pinged 39062-39063(39063) Host: notified 39062-39063(39063), pinged 0 Wall time:1.760000-2.220000(1.789167) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
2013-03-20virtio: Introduce vringh wrappers in virtio_configSjur Brændeland1-0/+3
Add wrappers for the host vrings to support loose coupling between the virtio device and driver. A new struct vringh_config_ops with the functions find_vrhs() and del_vrhs() is added to the virtio_device struct. This enables virtio drivers to manage virtio host rings without detailed knowledge of how the vrings are created and deleted. The function vringh_notify() is added so vringh clients can notify the other side that buffers are added to the used-ring. Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (constified vringh_config)
2013-02-13virtio: Add module driver macro for virtio drivers.Sjur Brændeland1-0/+9
Add helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in module init/exit. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-02-11virtio: make config_ops constStephen Hemminger1-1/+1
It is just a table of function pointers, make it const for cleanliness and security reasons. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-12-18virtio: add drv_to_virtio to make code clearlyWanlong Gao1-0/+5
Add drv_to_virtio wrapper to get virtio_driver from device_driver. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-12-18virtio: use dev_to_virtio wrapper in virtioWanlong Gao1-1/+5
Use dev_to_virtio wrapper in virtio to make code clearly. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-12-18virtio: move queue_index and num_free fields into core struct virtqueue.Rusty Russell1-1/+13
They're generic concepts, so hoist them. This also avoids accessor functions (though kept around for merge with DaveM's net tree). This goes even further than Jason Wang's 17bb6d4088 patch ("virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue") which moved the queue_index from the specific transport. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-09-28virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueueJason Wang1-0/+2
Instead of storing the queue index in transport-specific virtio structs, this patch moves them to vring_virtqueue and introduces an helper to get the value. This lets drivers simplify their management and tracing of virtqueues. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-07-20[SCSI] virtio-scsi: Add vdrv->scan for post VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK LUN ↵Nicholas Bellinger1-0/+1
scanning This patch changes virtio-scsi to use a new virtio_driver->scan() callback so that scsi_scan_host() can be properly invoked once virtio_dev_probe() has set add_status(dev, VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK) to signal active virtio-ring operation, instead of from within virtscsi_probe(). This fixes a bug where SCSI LUN scanning for both virtio-scsi-raw and virtio-scsi/tcm_vhost setups was happening before VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK had been set, causing VIRTIO_SCSI_S_BAD_TARGET to occur. This fixes a bug with virtio-scsi/tcm_vhost where LUN scan was not detecting LUNs. Tested with virtio-scsi-raw + virtio-scsi/tcm_vhost w/ IBLOCK on 3.5-rc2 code. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2012-03-31virtio: drop thaw PM operationAmit Shah1-1/+0
The thaw operation was used by the balloon driver, but after the last commit there's no reason to have separate thaw and restore callbacks. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
2012-01-12virtio: pci: add PM notification handlers for restore, freeze, thaw, poweroffAmit Shah1-0/+5
Handle thaw, restore and freeze notifications from the PM core. Expose these to individual virtio drivers that can quiesce and resume vq operations. For drivers not implementing the thaw() method, use the restore method instead. These functions also save device-specific data so that the device can be put in pre-suspend state after resume, and disable and enable the PCI device in the freeze and resume functions, respectively. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12virtio: support unlocked queue kickRusty Russell1-0/+4
Based on patch by Christoph for virtio_blk speedup: Split virtqueue_kick to be able to do the actual notification outside the lock protecting the virtqueue. This patch was originally done by Stefan Hajnoczi, but I can't find the original one anymore and had to recreated it from memory. Pointers to the original or corrections for the commit message are welcome. Stefan's patch was here: https://github.com/stefanha/linux/commit/a6d06644e3a58e57a774e77d7dc34c4a5a2e7496 http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-virtualization/msg14616.html Third time's the charm! Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12virtio: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_bufRusty Russell1-15/+6
Remove wrapper functions. This makes the allocation type explicit in all callers; I used GPF_KERNEL where it seemed obvious, left it at GFP_ATOMIC otherwise. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2012-01-12virtio: document functions better.Rusty Russell1-47/+0
The old documentation is left over from when we used a structure with strategy pointers. And move the documentation to the C file as per kernel practice. Though I disagree... Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-11-02virtio.h: correct comment for struct virtio_driverWang Sheng-Hui1-2/+2
The patch is against 3.0. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-10-24Add ethtool -g support to virtio_netRick Jones1-0/+5
Add support for reporting ring sizes via ethtool -g to the virtio_net driver. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-30virtio: add api for delayed callbacksMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+9
Add an API that tells the other side that callbacks should be delayed until a lot of work has been done. Implement using the new event_idx feature. Note: it might seem advantageous to let the drivers ask for a callback after a specific capacity has been reached. However, as a single head can free many entries in the descriptor table, we don't really have a clue about capacity until get_buf is called. The API is the simplest to implement at the moment, we'll see what kind of hints drivers can pass when there's more than one user of the feature. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-05-19virtio: add_buf_gfpMichael S. Tsirkin1-5/+17
Add an add_buf variant that gets gfp parameter. Use that to allocate indirect buffers. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-05-19virtio_ring: remove a level of indirectionMichael S. Tsirkin1-53/+18
We have a single virtqueue_ops implementation, and it seems unlikely we'll get another one at this point. So let's remove an unnecessary level of indirection: it would be very easy to re-add it if another implementation surfaces. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-05-19virtio: add virtqueue_ vq_ops wrappersMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+34
Add inline functions that wrap vq->vq_ops-> calls Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-03-13net/9p: Add sysfs mount_tag file for virtio 9P deviceAneesh Kumar K.V1-0/+1
This adds a new file for virtio 9P device. The file contain details of the mount device name that should be used to mount the 9P file system. Ex: /sys/devices/virtio-pci/virtio1/mount_tag file now contian the tag name to be used to mount the 9P file system. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2010-02-24virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vringsShirley Ma1-0/+4
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown. This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So add a new hook to do this. Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-23virtio: make add_buf return capacity remainingRusty Russell1-1/+1
This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity remains for buffers. It's necessarily fuzzy, since VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors in one, *if* we can kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-12virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.Rusty Russell1-4/+8
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@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12virtio: fix obsolete documentation on probe functionRusty Russell1-2/+1
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-05-02virtio: explicit advertisement of driver featuresRusty Russell1-0/+7
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-04-08virtio: remove overzealous BUG_ON.Rusty Russell1-1/+4
The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host we don't need callbacks now. As it is not reliable, the debug check is overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time. Document this. Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance protection can be easily tripped even on UP. Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-17virtio: fix race in enable_cbChristian Borntraeger1-2/+3
There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback. I saw the following oops: kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218! illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99 Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60) Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20) R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001 000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237 000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8 Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001 tmll %r1,1 00000000002b819e: a7840004 brc 8,2b81a6 00000000002b81a2: a7f40001 brc 15,2b81a4 >00000000002b81a6: a51b0001 oill %r1,1 00000000002b81aa: 40102000 sth %r1,0(%r2) 00000000002b81ae: 07fe bcr 15,%r14 00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024 stmg %r7,%r15,56(%r15) 00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00 tmll %r15,15872 Call Trace: ([<000000000fa0bcd0>] 0xfa0bcd0) [<00000000002b8350>] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c [<000000000010ab08>] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0 [<0000000000110716>] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a [<0000000000107e72>] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0 The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host->guest traffic. I think its the following race: poll says netif_rx_complete poll calls enable_cb enable_cb opens the interrupt mask a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\ enable_cb sees that there is more work | enable_cb disables the interrupt | . V . interrupt is delivered . skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok some waiting disable_cb is called->check fails->bang! . poll would do napi check poll would do disable_cb The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned up doco)
2008-02-04virtio: reset functionRusty Russell1-5/+0
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04virtio: configuration change callbackRusty Russell1-0/+3
Various drivers want to know when their configuration information changes: the balloon driver is the immediate user, but the network driver may one day have a "carrier" status as well. This introduces that callback (lguest doesn't use it yet). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return.Rusty Russell1-5/+6
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Virtio interfaceRusty Russell1-0/+110
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>