Re: [QEMU][PATCHv2 1/8] xen: when unplugging emulated devices skip virtio devices

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 14:24 -0700, Vikram Garhwal wrote:
> > From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Virtio devices should never be unplugged at boot time, as they are
> > similar to pci passthrough devices.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Vikram Garhwal <vikram.garhwal@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Hm, do your virtio NICs still actually *work* after that? Or are they
> all disconnected from their netdev peers? 
> 
> I suspect you're going to want a variant of
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20231025145042.627381-19-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> which also leave the peers of your virtio devices intact?

Hi David, device unplug is an x86-only thing (see the definition of
xen_emul_unplug in Linux under arch/x86/xen/platform-pci-unplug.c) I
suspect Vikram who is working on ARM hasn't tested it.

Vikram, a simple option is to drop this patch if you don't need it.