Re: [PATCH] vfio: Add an ioctl to reset the device

[Chris Wright]

* Alex Williamson (alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Alex Williamson (alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > When using VFIO to assign a device to a guest, we want to make sure
> > > the device is quiesced on VM reset to stop all DMA within the guest
> > > mapped memory.  Add an ioctl which just calls pci_reset_function()
> > > and returns whether it succeeds.
> > 
> > Shouldn't there be a reset when binding/unbinding vfio to/from a pci
> > device?
> 
> There's already one when the /dev/vfioX file is opened, we should add
> another on release, and probably add the same PCI save state store/load
> that I'm proposing for KVM across those.  Thanks,

Hmm, I looked and didn't see it, hence the question.
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