Re: [PATCH 0/2] virtio: Add vhost-user-gpio device's support

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 05:04:57PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> This patchset adds vhost-user-gpio device's support in Qemu. The support for the
>> same has already been added to virtio specification and Linux Kernel.
>> 
>> A Rust based backend is also in progress and is tested against this patchset:
>> 
>> https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device/pull/76
>
>
> I'm reluctant to add this with no tests in tree.
> Want to write a minimal libhost-user based backend?

This is going to be a problem going forward as we have more out-of-tree
backends written as a first preference. While the first couple of vhost
devices have C implementations in contrib before we worked on the rust
version I think we are getting to the point of skipping a first C
version for future devices.

However I notice we have qtest/vhost-user-test.c so would that be enough
to ensure we can instantiate the device and a basic vhost-user
initialisation sequence doesn't cause it to crap out. This obviously
won't be exercising the virtq processing itself but does that really
exercise any of QEMU's boilerplate anyway?

> We also need some maintainers to step up.

You mean more reviewers for the vhost and virtio sections of QEMU's
maintainers?

>
>
>> --
>> Viresh
>> 
>> Viresh Kumar (2):
>>   hw/virtio: add boilerplate for vhost-user-gpio device
>>   hw/virtio: add vhost-user-gpio-pci boilerplate
>> 
>>  hw/virtio/Kconfig                   |   5 +
>>  hw/virtio/meson.build               |   2 +
>>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio-pci.c     |  69 ++++++
>>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.c         | 343 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h |  35 +++
>>  5 files changed, 454 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio-pci.c
>>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h
>> 
>> -- 
>> 2.31.1.272.g89b43f80a514


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Alex Bennée