Re: [PATCH v4 for 7.2 00/22] virtio-gpio and various virtio cleanups

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 10:18, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>> > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 07:51:40AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
>> > >>
>> > >> > Hi,
>> > >> >
>> > >> > This is an update to the previous series which fixes the last few
>> > >> > niggling CI failures I was seeing.
>> > >> >
>> > >> >    Subject: [PATCH v3 for 7.2 00/21] virtio-gpio and various virtio cleanups
>> > >> >    Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:21:29 +0100
>> > >> >    Message-Id: <20220726192150.2435175-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The CI failures were tricky to track down because they didn't occur
>> > >> > locally but after patching to dump backtraces they all seem to involve
>> > >> > updates to virtio_set_status() as the machine was torn down. I think
>> > >> > patch that switches all users to use virtio_device_started() along
>> > >> > with consistent checking of vhost_dev->started stops this from
>> > >> > happening. The clean-up seems worthwhile in reducing boilerplate
>> > >> > anyway.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > The following patches still need review:
>> > >> >
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: enable tests for virtio-gpio
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: add a get_features op to vhost-user-test
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: implement stub for VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: add assert to catch bad features
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: plain g_assert for VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: catch unhandled vhost-user messages
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: use qos_printf instead of g_test_message
>> > >> >   - tests/qtest: pass stdout/stderr down to subtests
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: move vhd->started check into helper and add FIXME
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: move vm_running check to virtio_device_started
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: add some vhost-user trace events
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: log potentially buggy guest drivers
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: fix some coding style issues
>> > >> >   - include/hw: document vhost_dev feature life-cycle
>> > >> >   - include/hw/virtio: more comment for VIRTIO_F_BAD_FEATURE
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: fix vhost_user_read tracepoint
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: handle un-configured shutdown in virtio-pci
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: gracefully handle unset vhost_dev vdev
>> > >> >   - hw/virtio: incorporate backend features in features
>> > >> <snip>
>> > >>
>> > >> Ping?
>> > >
>> > > Who are you pinging?
>> > >
>> > > Only qemu-devel is on To and there are a bunch of people on Cc.
>> >
>> > Well I guess MST is the maintainer for the sub-system but I was hoping
>> > other virtio contributors had some sort of view. The process of
>> > up-streaming a simple vhost-user stub has flushed out all sorts of
>> > stuff.
>> 
>> Okay, moving MST to To in case it helps get his attention.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan
>
> thanks, it's in my queue, just pulling in backlog that built up
> during the forum.

Thanks, doing the same myself ;-)

-- 
Alex Bennée