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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 18:23 -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 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.

Ah, I had assumed there was something else coming along later which
would make it actually get used. 

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

That works. Although I may revive it in that case.

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