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Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features

From "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features
Date 2017-03-30 17:00 +0200
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:06:27AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:14:44 +0300
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Some drivers can't support all features in all configurations.  At the
> > moment we blindly set FEATURES_OK and later FAILED.  Support this better
> > by adding a callback drivers can use to do some early checks.
> 
> Looks reasonable. Do we need to document that the driver must not do
> anything beyond dealing with features and reading the config space that
> early?

It's up to the driver - we probably should document that on failure
neither probe nor remove will be called. On success we proceed
to probe.

> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 6 ++++++
> >  include/linux/virtio.h  | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> > index 400d70b..48230a5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> > @@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ static int virtio_dev_probe(struct device *_d)
> >  		if (device_features & (1ULL << i))
> >  			__virtio_set_bit(dev, i);
> >  
> > +	if (drv->validate) {
> > +		err = drv->validate(dev);
> > +		if (err)
> > +			goto err;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	err = virtio_finalize_features(dev);
> >  	if (err)
> >  		goto err;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
> > index 193fea9..ed04753 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/virtio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
> > @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct virtio_driver {
> >  	unsigned int feature_table_size;
> >  	const unsigned int *feature_table_legacy;
> >  	unsigned int feature_table_size_legacy;
> > +	int (*validate)(struct virtio_device *dev);
> >  	int (*probe)(struct virtio_device *dev);
> >  	void (*scan)(struct virtio_device *dev);
> >  	void (*remove)(struct virtio_device *dev);
> 
> Would be good to add some doc; but other members are undocumented here
> already...

True. Patches welcome.

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[PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-29 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: clear MTU when out of range "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-29 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2017-03-30 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-30 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-03-30 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: allow drivers to validate features "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-31 05:30 +0200

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