Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Reset hotplugged devices

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 11:00 +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Several devices rely on their reset() function being called to
> > initialize device state, e1000 and rtl8139 in particular.  When
> > the device is hot added, the reset doesn't occur, often leaving
> > the device in an unusable state.  Adding a call to reset() after
> > init() for hotplugged devices puts the device in the expected
> > state for the guest.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  0.13 candidate?
> >
> >  hw/qdev.c |    3 +++
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
> > index e99c73f..b156272 100644
> > --- a/hw/qdev.c
> > +++ b/hw/qdev.c
> > @@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ int qdev_init(DeviceState *dev)
> >          qdev_free(dev);
> >          return rc;
> >      }
> > +    if (dev->hotplugged) {
> > +        qdev_reset(dev);
> > +    }
> >      qemu_register_reset(qdev_reset, dev);
> >      if (dev->info->vmsd) {
> >          vmstate_register_with_alias_id(dev, -1, dev->info->vmsd, dev,
> 
> qdev_reset() isn't necessary when !dev->hotplugged, because then
> qemu_system_reset() will run shortly, which will call qdev_reset().
> Correct?

Yes, exactly.