Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr_rng: disable hotpluggability

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:27:48PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 25.02.2016 12:08, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > It is currently possible to hotplug a spapr_rng device but QEMU crashes
> > when we try to hot unplug:
> > 
> > ERROR:hw/core/qdev.c:295:qdev_unplug: assertion failed: (hotplug_ctrl)
> > Aborted
> > 
> > This happens because spapr_rng isn't plugged to any bus and sPAPR does
> > not provide hotplug support for it: qdev_get_hotplug_handler() hence
> > return NULL and we hit the assertion.
> > 
> > And anyway, it doesn't make much sense to unplug this device since hcalls
> > cannot be unregistered. Even the idea of hotplugging a RNG device instead
> > of declaring it on the QEMU command line looks weird.
> > 
> > This patch simply disables hotpluggability for the spapr-rng class.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/ppc/spapr_rng.c |    1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_rng.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_rng.c
> > index 8484fcf54774..a39d472b66fd 100644
> > --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_rng.c
> > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_rng.c
> > @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ static void spapr_rng_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
> >      dc->realize = spapr_rng_realize;
> >      set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC, dc->categories);
> >      dc->props = spapr_rng_properties;
> > +    dc->hotpluggable = false;
> >  }
> 
> That makes sense!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Indeed.  Merged to ppc-for-2.6, thanks.

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