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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2011-07-22 05:09:49 (GMT)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2011-07-22 05:09:49 (GMT)
commit3c3ed482dc077a67903a58c9e1aedba1bb18c18a (patch)
treead3987515d68fcfa7155574e53ab47aabd41e593 /arch/x86
parent6d7a5d1ea34495ecb1d608f0e40afba7776ee408 (diff)
downloadlinux-3c3ed482dc077a67903a58c9e1aedba1bb18c18a.tar.xz
lguest: Simplify device initialization.
We used to notify the Host every time we updated a device's status. However, it only really needs to know when we're resetting the device, or failed to initialize it, or when we've finished our feature negotiation. In particular, we used to wait for VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK in the status byte before starting the device service threads. But this corresponds to the successful finish of device initialization, which might (like virtio_blk's partition scanning) use the device. So we had a hack, if they used the device before we expected we started the threads anyway. Now we hook into the finalize_features hook in the Guest: at that point we tell the Launcher that it can rely on the features we have acked. On the Launcher side, we look at the status at that point, and start servicing the device. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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