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authorRusty Russell2008-02-04 23:50:03 -0500
committerRusty Russell2008-02-04 23:50:03 +1100
commit6e5aa7efb27aec7e55b6463fa2c8db594c4226fa (patch)
tree060a955e711ac224136157a5410e88dcdab965af /drivers/net
parentb3369c1fb410fddeb38a404316c861395f6d6ae8 (diff)
virtio: reset function
A reset function solves three problems: 1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a guest driver without rebooting the guest. 2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset, we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and 3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers. So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove feature bits is via reset. We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues: the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its remove function. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/virtio_net.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index ec43284ffd13..6e0a9fefe6cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -390,13 +390,14 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
struct virtnet_info *vi = vdev->priv;
struct sk_buff *skb;
+ /* Stop all the virtqueues. */
+ vdev->config->reset(vdev);
+
/* Free our skbs in send and recv queues, if any. */
- vi->rvq->vq_ops->shutdown(vi->rvq);
while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&vi->recv)) != NULL) {
kfree_skb(skb);
vi->num--;
}
- vi->svq->vq_ops->shutdown(vi->svq);
while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&vi->send)) != NULL)
kfree_skb(skb);