Re: [PATCH for 7.2-rc3 v1 0/2] virtio fixes

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 03:21:32PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This hopefully fixes the problems with VirtIO migration caused by the
> previous refactoring of virtio_device_started(). That introduced a
> different order of checking which didn't give the VM state primacy but
> wasn't noticed as we don't properly exercise VirtIO device migration
> and caused issues when dev->started wasn't checked in the core code.
> The introduction of virtio_device_should_start() split the overloaded
> function up but the broken order still remained. The series finally
> fixes that by restoring the original semantics but with the cleaned up
> functions.
> 
> I've added more documentation to the various structures involved as
> well as the functions. There is still some inconsistencies in the
> VirtIO code between different devices but I think that can be looked
> at over the 8.0 cycle.


Thanks a lot! Did you try this with gitlab CI? A patch similar to your
2/2 broke it previously ...

> Alex Bennée (2):
>   include/hw: attempt to document VirtIO feature variables
>   include/hw: VM state takes precedence in virtio_device_should_start
> 
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost.h  | 25 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.34.1