From: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@ravellosystems.com>
To: Miao Yan <yanmiaobest@gmail.com>
Cc: dmitry@daynix.com, jasowang@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] net/vmxnet3: return 1 on device activation failure
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:41:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151222224134.3acde5f8@halley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450765104-26135-2-git-send-email-yanmiaobest@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:18:21 -0800 Miao Yan <yanmiaobest@gmail.com> wrote:
> When reading device status, 0 means device is successfully
> activated and 1 means error.
>
> This behavior can be observed by the following steps:
>
> 1) run a Linux distro on esxi server
> 2) modify vmxnet3 Linux driver to give it an invalid
> address to 'adapter->shared_pa' which is the
> shared memory for guest/host communication
>
> This will trigger device activation failure and kernel
> log will have the following message:
>
> [ 7138.403256] vmxnet3 0000:03:00.0 eth1: Failed to activate dev: error 1
Could it be that various other error codes might be returned from ESXi
for a VMXNET3_CMD_ACTIVATE_DEV read, depending on device condition?
Regards,
Shmulik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-22 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-22 6:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] correct some register return values for vxmnet3 Miao Yan
2015-12-22 6:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] net/vmxnet3: return 1 on device activation failure Miao Yan
2015-12-22 20:41 ` Shmulik Ladkani [this message]
2015-12-22 21:13 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2015-12-22 6:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] net/vmxnet3: return correct value for VMXNET3_CMD_GET_DID_* command Miao Yan
2015-12-22 20:49 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2015-12-23 3:02 ` Miao Yan
2015-12-22 21:17 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2015-12-22 6:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] net/vmxnet3: return correct value for VMXNET3_CMD_GET_DEV_EXTRA_INFO Miao Yan
2015-12-22 20:51 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2015-12-22 6:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] net/vmxnet3: return 0 on unknown command Miao Yan
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