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Re: [PATCH v6 10/13] vpci/header: reset the command register when adding devices



On 10.02.2022 13:54, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 07.02.22 16:31, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 07.02.2022 15:17, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>> But: What's still missing here then is the separation of guest and host
>> views. When we set INTx behind the guest's back, it shouldn't observe the
>> bit set. Or is this meant to be another (big) TODO?
> Why not? This seems to be when a guest tries to both enable MSI/MSI-X
> and INTx which is a wrong combination. Let's pretend to be a really
> smart PCI device which partially rejects such PCI_COMMAND write,
> so guest still sees the register consistent wrt INTx bit. Namely it remains
> set.

I'm afraid this wouldn't be "smart", but "buggy". I'm not aware of
the spec leaving room for such behavior. And our emulation should
give the guest a spec-compliant view of the device.

Jan




 


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