Hi,
I've got some qemu crashes while trying to passthrough an ide device
to a kvm guest. After some investigation, it turned out that
register_ioport_{read/write} will abort on errors instead of returning
a meaningful error.
However, even if we do return an error, the asynchronous nature of pci
config space mapping updates makes it a little bit hard to treat.
This series of patches basically treats errors in the mapping functions in
the pci layer. If anything goes wrong, we unregister the pci device, unmapping
any mappings that happened to be sucessfull already.
After these patches are applied, a lot of warnings appears. And, you know,
everytime there is a warning, god kills a kitten. But I'm not planning on
touching the other pieces of qemu code for this until we set up (or not) in
this solution
Comments are very welcome, specially from qemu folks (since it is a bit
invasive)