From: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: stefanha@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com, elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/2] vfio-user: update comments
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 16:43:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7340a298bcda0268b3decdd772ebce84bfcedcd5.1684338236.git.jag.raman@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1684338236.git.jag.raman@oracle.com>
Clarify the behavior of TYPE_VFU_OBJECT when TYPE_REMOTE_MACHINE enables
the auto-shutdown property. Also, add notes to VFU_OBJECT_ERROR.
Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
---
hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c b/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c
index 88ffafc73e..8b10c32a3c 100644
--- a/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c
+++ b/hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
*
* notes - x-vfio-user-server could block IO and monitor during the
* initialization phase.
+ *
+ * When x-remote machine has the auto-shutdown property
+ * enabled (default), x-vfio-user-server terminates after the last
+ * client disconnects. Otherwise, it will continue running until
+ * explicitly killed.
*/
#include "qemu/osdep.h"
@@ -61,9 +66,12 @@
OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE(VfuObject, VfuObjectClass, VFU_OBJECT)
/**
- * VFU_OBJECT_ERROR - reports an error message. If auto_shutdown
- * is set, it aborts the machine on error. Otherwise, it logs an
- * error message without aborting.
+ * VFU_OBJECT_ERROR - reports an error message.
+ *
+ * If auto_shutdown is set, it aborts the machine on error. Otherwise,
+ * it logs an error message without aborting. auto_shutdown is disabled
+ * when the server serves clients from multiple VMs; as such, an error
+ * from one VM shouldn't be able to disrupt other VM's services.
*/
#define VFU_OBJECT_ERROR(o, fmt, ...) \
{ \
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-17 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-17 16:43 [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the documentation for vfio-user and multi-process QEMU Jagannathan Raman
2023-05-17 16:43 ` Jagannathan Raman [this message]
2023-05-25 15:02 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] vfio-user: update comments Markus Armbruster
2023-05-25 17:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-05-17 16:43 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] docs: fix multi-process QEMU documentation Jagannathan Raman
2023-05-25 15:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2023-05-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the documentation for vfio-user and multi-process QEMU Stefan Hajnoczi
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