Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.1 0/4] Xen: Fix PV-on-HVM

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 05/15/2012 10:26 AM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> In the context of PV-on-HVM under Xen, the emulated nics are supposed to be
> unplug before the guest drivers are initialized. This mean that there must be
> unplug without the consent of the guest.

Stefano,

Can you do a PULL for the various 1.1 fixes for Xen?  Please try to get any -rc3 
pull requests in by Friday.

Thanks,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Without this patch series, the guest end up with two nics with the same MAC,
> the emulated nic and the PV nic.
>
> I tried few other path before to submite these patches:
>    - delayed the hot unplug in QEMU until the guest initialize the hotplug.
>      =>  the guest unplug the nic only after the driver initialized it. That's a
>        bit late.
>    - delayed the call to unplug the emulated device until pci_acpi_init is called
>      =>  this is worse, the pv disc does not show up and the guest does not boot.
>
> In order to achive this fix, these patches introduce a new hotplug state only
> used in acpi_piix4, and a new qdev callback force_unplug.
>
> Would it be possible to have this fix in the next release?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Anthony PERARD (4):
>    Introduce a new hotplug state: Force eject.
>    qdev: Introduce qdev_force_unplug.
>    pci: Add force_unplug callback.
>    xen: Fix PV-on-HVM
>
>   hw/acpi_piix4.c   |    5 +++++
>   hw/pci.c          |   15 +++++++++++++--
>   hw/pci.h          |    1 +
>   hw/qdev.c         |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>   hw/qdev.h         |    3 +++
>   hw/xen_platform.c |    2 +-
>   6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>