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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] xen/pt: fix some pass-thru devices don't work across reboot



On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 03:13:50AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> But then again I'm still not fully convinced that a hypervisor
> change is the right course of action here in the first place. It
> would be better if the hypervisor had to just verify that all
> IRQ mappings are gone, or else fail the de-assignment of the
> device.

The only component (except the hypervisor) that knows about such
assignments is QEMU, and in the case of a QEMU crash the host would be
left with a device that cannot be de-assigned, because the information
about the PIRQ bindings in lost due to the QEMU crash.

IMO Xen needs to be capable of cleaning any bindings and mappings done
by the toolstack or the device model in order to be able to correctly
recover from a device model or toolstack crash.

Roger.

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