On 01/04/2019 12:08 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
Some transports (e.g. virtio-ccw) implement virtio operations that
seem to be a simple read/write as something more involved that
cannot be done from an atomic context.

Give at least a hint about that.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com>
---
  include/linux/virtio_config.h | 5 +++++
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
index 7087ef946ba7..987b6491b946 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ struct irq_affinity;
/**
   * virtio_config_ops - operations for configuring a virtio device
+ * Note: Do not assume that a transport implements all of the operations
+ *       getting/setting a value as a simple read/write! Generally speaking,
+ *       any of @get/@set, @get_status/@set_status, or @get_features/
+ *       @finalize_features are NOT safe to be called from an atomic
+ *       context.
   * @get: read the value of a configuration field
   *    vdev: the virtio_device
   *    offset: the offset of the configuration field


Reviewed-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.w...@intel.com>

Best,
Wei
_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization

Reply via email to