Re: [PATCH] input/vmmouse: Add vmmouse_reset() function to disable vmmouse before entering suspend mode

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:10:46AM +0800, Zongmin Zhou wrote:
> Details:
> When I use VirtualPS/2 VMMouse on virtual machine,There will be an error message after resume from suspend mode.
> like below:
> psmouse serio1: vmmouse: Unable to re-enable mouse when reconnecting, err: -6
> And vmmouse will be unusable，so have to do full rescan to find a another driver to use for the port.
> 
> This error is due to QEMU still generate PS2 events to notify kernel driver to read from queue,
> but kernel can't process the data in suspend mode, resulting a surge of s->nb_queue value,
> which ultimately led to an error getting VMMOUSE_VERSION_ID after resume.
> 
> Test scenario:
> 1)virtual machine started with qemu command "vmport=on",it will use VirtualPS/2 VMMouse
> 2)click suspend botton to enter suspend mode
> 3)resume and will get the error message from dmesg
> 
> Fixed by:
> Disabling the vmmouse in its reset handler,It will notify qemu to stop vmmouse and remove handler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zongmin Zhou<zhouzongmin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

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Dmitry