linux-kernel - Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [VIRTIO PCI PATCH v5 1/1] transport-pci: Add freeze_mode to virtio_pci_common

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Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:24:11 +0000
From:   "Chen, Jiqian" <Jiqian.Chen@....com>
To:     "Zhu, Lingshan" <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:     Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
        Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>,
        Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@...il.com>,
        Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@...il.com>,
        Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@...labora.com>,
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        Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
        "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
        "Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@....com>,
        "Hildebrand, Stewart" <Stewart.Hildebrand@....com>,
        Xenia Ragiadakou <burzalodowa@...il.com>,
        "Huang, Honglei1" <Honglei1.Huang@....com>,
        "Zhang, Julia" <Julia.Zhang@....com>,
        "Huang, Ray" <Ray.Huang@....com>,
        "Chen, Jiqian" <Jiqian.Chen@....com>
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [VIRTIO PCI PATCH v5 1/1]
 transport-pci: Add freeze_mode to virtio_pci_common_cfg

Hi Lingshan,
It seems you reply to the wrong email thread. They are not related to my patch.

On 2023/9/20 15:06, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/20/2023 2:58 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>>> From: Chen, Jiqian <Jiqian.Chen@....com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 12:03 PM
>>> If driver write 0 to reset device, can the SUSPEND bit be cleared?
>> It must as reset operation, resets everything else and so the suspend too.
>>
>>> (pci_pm_resume->virtio_pci_restore->virtio_device_restore-
>>>> virtio_reset_device)
>>> If SUSPEND is cleared, then during the reset process in Qemu, I can't judge if
>>> the reset request is from guest restore process or not, and then I can't change
>>> the reset behavior.
>> Reset should not be influenced by suspend.
>> Suspend should do the work of suspend and reset to do the reset.
>>
>> The problem to overcome in [1] is, resume operation needs to be synchronous as it involves large part of context to resume back, and hence just asynchronously setting DRIVER_OK is not enough.
>> The sw must verify back that device has resumed the operation and ready to answer requests.
> this is not live migration, all device status and other information still stay in the device, no need to "resume" context, just resume running.
> 
> Like resume from a failed LM.
>>
>> This is slightly different flow than setting the DRIVER_OK for the first time device initialization sequence as it does not involve large restoration.
>>
>> So, to merge two ideas, instead of doing DRIVER_OK to resume, the driver should clear the SUSPEND bit and verify that it is out of SUSPEND.
>>
>> Because driver is still in _OK_ driving the device flipping the SUSPEND bit.
> Please read the spec, it says:
> The driver MUST NOT clear a device status bit
> 
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Jiqian Chen.