RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] remove saving/restoring method in Xend.

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This patch removes Xend method which saves/restores PCI configuration
> space.
> And this patch modifies the timing of saving/restoring configuration
> space like below.
> 
>   When pciback is bound to devices.
>    - Pciback saves configuration space.
> 
>   When pciback is unbound to devices.
>    - Pciback restores configuration space.
> 
>   When guest OS boots or a device is hotadded.
>    - Pciback restores configuration space.
>    - Pciback changes state of backend device to
> Initialised/Reconfigured.
>    - Xend waits for the transition to Initialised/Reconfigured.
> 
>   When guest OS shutdowns or a device is hotremoved.
>    - Pciback restores configuration space.
>    - Xend resets devices.
>      * If D-state of the device is not D0, the state is changed to D0
>        before resetting the device.
>    - Xend deassigns devices.

Does it not make sense to have pciback do the reset too? I think I've seen 
draft patches from Ross Philipson to move the reset into pciback -- they may 
even be checked in to the xenbits.xen.org/xenclient tree.

Thanks,
Ian




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