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>
The ucast transport is similar to the mcast transport (and, in fact,
shares most of its code), only it uses UDP unicast to move packets.
Obviously this is only useful for point-to-point connections between
virtual ethernet devices.
Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (131 commits)
KVM: MMU: Use ptep_user for cmpxchg_gpte()
KVM: Fix kvm mmu_notifier initialization order
KVM: Add documentation for KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS
KVM: make guest mode entry to be rcu quiescent state
KVM: x86 emulator: Make jmp far emulation into a separate function
KVM: x86 emulator: Rename emulate_grpX() to em_grpX()
KVM: x86 emulator: Remove unused arg from emulate_pop()
KVM: x86 emulator: Remove unused arg from writeback()
KVM: x86 emulator: Remove unused arg from read_descriptor()
KVM: x86 emulator: Remove unused arg from seg_override()
KVM: Validate userspace_addr of memslot when registered
KVM: MMU: Clean up gpte reading with copy_from_user()
KVM: PPC: booke: add sregs support
KVM: PPC: booke: save/restore VRSAVE (a.k.a. USPRG0)
KVM: PPC: use ticks, not usecs, for exit timing
KVM: PPC: fix exit accounting for SPRs, tlbwe, tlbsx
KVM: PPC: e500: emulate SVR
KVM: VMX: Cache vmcs segment fields
KVM: x86 emulator: consolidate segment accessors
KVM: VMX: Avoid reading %rip unnecessarily when handling exceptions
...
- Documentation/kvm/ to Documentation/virtual/kvm
- Documentation/uml/ to Documentation/virtual/uml
- Documentation/lguest/ to Documentation/virtual/lguest
throughout the kernel source tree.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>