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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vfio: Add an ioctl to reset the device
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On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:26 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Alex Williamson (alex.williamson@redhat.com) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:07 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > * Alex Williamson (alex.williamson@redhat.com) wrote:
> > > > When using VFIO to assign a device to a guest, we want to make sure
> > > > the device is quiesced on VM reset to stop all DMA within the guest
> > > > mapped memory. Add an ioctl which just calls pci_reset_function()
> > > > and returns whether it succeeds.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't there be a reset when binding/unbinding vfio to/from a pci
> > > device?
> >
> > There's already one when the /dev/vfioX file is opened, we should add
> > another on release, and probably add the same PCI save state store/load
> > that I'm proposing for KVM across those. Thanks,
>
> Hmm, I looked and didn't see it, hence the question.

vfio_open() -> pci_reset_function()
https://github.com/pugs/vfio-linux-2.6/blob/vfio/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c



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