Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] pci-assign: Add support for no-route

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 02/10/2012 22:12, Alex Williamson ha scritto:
>> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 14:55 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> In the event that a pci-assign device is added to a chipset that
>>>> hasn't yet implemented the INTx routing interface, exit gracefully
>>>> instead of killing the VM.  I'm sure we'll implement this for q35,
>>>> but there's no reason for such a harsh response.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>  hw/kvm/pci-assign.c |    6 ++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c b/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c
>>>> index 05b93d9..7ce0f37 100644
>>>> --- a/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c
>>>> +++ b/hw/kvm/pci-assign.c
>>>> @@ -887,6 +887,12 @@ static int assign_intx(AssignedDevice *dev)
>>>>  
>>>>      intx_route = pci_device_route_intx_to_irq(&dev->dev, dev->intpin);
>>>>      assert(intx_route.mode != PCI_INTX_INVERTED);
>>>> +    if (intx_route.mode == PCI_INTX_NOROUTE) {
>>>> +        error_report("pci-assign: chipset provides no INTx routing "
>>>> +                     "information, but device supports INTx interrupt mode.\n");
>>>> +        pci_device_set_intx_routing_notifier(&dev->dev, NULL);
>>>> +        return -ENOTSUP;
>>>> +    }
>>>
>>> Please don't use error_report() in new code.  Propagate an Error object
>>> using error_setg() and friends.
>> 
>> That doesn't really seem to be an option since this function is called
>> both from the driver initfn and the interrupt routing change notifier.
>> Neither of those give me an Error object... suggestions?  Thanks,
>
> Both assigned_dev_update_irq_routing and assigned_dev_update_msi would
> have to print the error themselves (qerror_report_err + error_free).
> Looks like a waste of time, frankly.

That's a pity but I do agree.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo