Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] hw/virtio-net.c: set config size using host features

[Anthony Liguori]

Andreas Färber <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 07.03.2013 17:27, schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
>>> It's a bug in both virtio-ccw that features=0 when get_features is
>>> called.  You can also tell this with:
>>>
>>> [10:02 AM] address@hidden:~/git/qemu/hw/s390x$ grep 
>>> DEFINE_VIRTIO_NET_FEATURES *
>>> virtio-ccw.c:    DEFINE_VIRTIO_NET_FEATURES(VirtioCcwDevice, 
>>> host_features[0]),
>>>
>>> So virtio-s390 is doing it wrong, but virtio-ccw looks like its doing it
>>> right.
>> 
>> At least, this patch seems to work. (That also implies, that a transport
>> must not hide virtio feature bits).
>
> To me it indicates that the use of the old qdev property setters is
> hiding errors resulting from trying to set not-existing properties.
> If we would set the properties in a way that gets us an Error* on
> failure like the object_property_set_*() do, we would notice on machine
> creation (or device_add).

Hrm, I don't understand your statement.

Can you elaborate?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Andreas
>
>> 
>> 
>> From: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:21:41 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] Allow virtio-net features for legacy s390 virtio bus
>> 
>> Enable all virtio-net features for the legacy s390 virtio bus.
>> This also fixes
>> kernel BUG at 
>> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-default-3.0.58/linux-3.0/drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c:121!
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c
>> index 1200691..a8a8e19 100644
>> --- a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c
>> +++ b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c
>> @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ static const VirtIOBindings virtio_s390_bindings = {
>>  
>>  static Property s390_virtio_net_properties[] = {
>>      DEFINE_NIC_PROPERTIES(VirtIOS390Device, nic),
>> +    DEFINE_VIRTIO_NET_FEATURES(VirtIOS390Device, host_features),
>>      DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("x-txtimer", VirtIOS390Device,
>>                         net.txtimer, TX_TIMER_INTERVAL),
>>      DEFINE_PROP_INT32("x-txburst", VirtIOS390Device,
>> 
>
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