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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, markmc@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v8 1/3] KVM: make io_bus interface more robust
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:53:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090625145341.GC7221@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A438825.5000606@novell.com>

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:22:29AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > Today kvm_io_bus_regsiter_dev() returns void and will internally BUG_ON if it
> > fails.  We want to create dynamic MMIO/PIO entries driven from userspace later
> > in the series, so we need to enhance the code to be more robust with the
> > following changes:
> >
> >    1) Add a return value to the registration function
> >    2) Fix up all the callsites to check the return code, handle any
> >       failures, and percolate the error up to the caller.
> >    3) Add an unregister function that collapses holes in the array

Does not unregister need rcu bus fixes to work?

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-25 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19  0:30 [KVM PATCH v8 0/3] iosignalfd Gregory Haskins
2009-06-19  0:30 ` [KVM PATCH v8 1/3] KVM: make io_bus interface more robust Gregory Haskins
2009-06-25 14:22   ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-25 14:53     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-06-25 14:56       ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-19  0:30 ` [KVM PATCH v8 2/3] KVM: add per-vm limit on the maximum number of io-devices supported Gregory Haskins
2009-06-19  0:30 ` [KVM PATCH v8 3/3] KVM: add iosignalfd support Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 10:44   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 12:13     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 12:26       ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-06-22 12:30       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 12:56         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 13:08           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 13:12             ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 13:13             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-22 13:04         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 13:13           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 13:19             ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 14:30               ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-22 14:39                 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 14:28             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-22 15:16   ` [PATCH RFC] pass write value to in_range pointers Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 15:45     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 16:08       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 16:29         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 17:27           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23  4:04             ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-23 11:44               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23 11:52                 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-23 11:56                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23 12:01                   ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-23 12:19                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23 11:53               ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23  9:54           ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23  9:52         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23 11:41           ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-23 11:46             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23  8:56   ` [KVM PATCH v8 3/3] KVM: add iosignalfd support Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23  9:57     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23 10:48       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23 11:24         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-23 11:33     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-23 11:36       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23 11:40         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-23 13:22     ` Gregory Haskins

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