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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Carsten Otte <carsteno@de.ibm.com>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] S390: Add virtio hotplug add support
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:13:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C737114.60606@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282599077-29857-2-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>

Am 23.08.2010 23:31, schrieb Alexander Graf:
> The one big missing feature in s390-virtio was hotplugging. This is no more.
> This patch implements hotplug add support, so you can on the fly add new devices
> in the guest.

Nice :-)


> Keep in mind that this needs a patch for qemu to actually leverage the
> functionality.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
With the minor nits below fixed:
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

>  #define VIRTIO_PARAM_MASK		0xff
>  #define VIRTIO_PARAM_VRING_INTERRUPT	0x0
>  #define VIRTIO_PARAM_CONFIG_CHANGED	0x1
> +#define VIRTIO_PARAM_DEV_ADD		0x2

See the other patch. This becomes an interface and should go into a header file.
> 
>  /*
>   * The pointer to our (page) of device descriptions.
>   */
>  static void *kvm_devices;
> +struct work_struct hotplug_work;
> 
>  struct kvm_device {
>  	struct virtio_device vdev;
> @@ -331,6 +333,47 @@ static void scan_devices(void)
>  }
> 
>  /*
> + * match for a kvm device with a specific desc pointer
> + */
> +static int match_desc(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> +	if ((ulong)to_kvmdev(dev_to_virtio(dev))->desc == (ulong)data)

ulong doesnt look like kernel coding style.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-24  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23 21:31 [PATCH 1/2] S390: take a full byte as ext_param indicator Alexander Graf
2010-08-23 21:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] S390: Add virtio hotplug add support Alexander Graf
2010-08-24  7:13   ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2010-08-24  7:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] S390: take a full byte as ext_param indicator Christian Borntraeger
2010-08-24 12:06   ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-24 12:14     ` Christian Borntraeger
2010-08-24 12:22       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 12:25         ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-24 12:30           ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 12:32             ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-24 12:35               ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 13:24         ` Christian Borntraeger

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