Discussion of the implementations of VIRTIO specification
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, vatsa.ml@gmail.com
Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: virtio mmio reset - driver requirements
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 14:04:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210705140337-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75e7814a85767f111aefda0c173c83d4@codeaurora.org>

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 10:07:15PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> I noticed this in virtio spec for PCI transport based devices:
> 
> "After writing 0 to device_status, the driver MUST wait for a read of
> device_status to return 0 before reinitializing the device."
> 
> I was wondering why the spec does not recommend a similar "wait after
> writing 0
> to status register" for other transports such as MMIO.
> 
> Even the Linux code for virtio_mmio does not have any such wait:
> 
> static void vm_reset(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> {
>         struct virtio_mmio_device *vm_dev = to_virtio_mmio_device(vdev);
> 
>         /* 0 status means a reset. */
>         writel(0, vm_dev->base + VIRTIO_MMIO_STATUS);
> }
> 
> Does that assume that backends are implemented in software when MMIO writes
> result in trap and backend synchronously does everything needed to handle
> reset
> as part of trap handling? Wouldn't it break if we were to have backends
> implemented in hardware device accessed via MMIO transport?
> 
> Thanks
> vatsa

I guess yes.

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