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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Marcos Oviedo <moviedo.maillist@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Add force option support to pci_del command
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:27:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0FA4B9.7090906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikxXDikl-mG-jnFiTc57HYcehx1s8R5yISgeDA5@mail.gmail.com>

   Hi,

> This make sense when you mistakenly add a pci device on a -s -S
> scenario, like the scenario described on the following bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/544367.

It doesn't IMHO.

> When ACPI-based hotplug support is present on the guest and we run
> pci_del with the force option, the hotplug events will still be
> generated to the guest and the guest still will trigger the EJx event,
> which will end by calling pciej_write() on qemu side. This function will
> do nothing on a -f and pci hotplug support scenario, as the pci device
> was previously removed by pci_del.

And in case the guest wants to do anything (like flushing dirty buffers) 
before triggering the EJx event it will horribly fail.

If the guest is stopped while unplugging the device the unplug should 
happen as soon as the guest is unpaused.

cheers,
   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09  5:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Add force option support to pci_del command Marcos Oviedo
2010-06-09  6:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-06-09  7:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-09 14:00   ` Marcos Oviedo
2010-06-09 14:27     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2010-06-14 16:59       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-15  8:46         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-15  9:03         ` Markus Armbruster
2010-06-17 18:15           ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-06-17 18:20             ` Anthony Liguori

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