[libvirt] [PATCH 02/14] Retain disk PCI address across libvirtd restarts

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:51:12PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> When we hot-plug a disk device into a qemu guest, we need to retain its
> PCI address so that it can be removed again later. Currently, we do
> retain the slot number, but not across libvirtd restarts.
> 
> Add <state devaddr="xxxx:xx:xx"/> to the disk device XML config when the
> VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_STATUS flag is used. We still don't parse the
> domain and bus number, but the format allows us to do that in future.
> 
> * src/domain_conf.h: replace slotnum with pci_addr
> 


> diff --git a/src/domain_conf.h b/src/domain_conf.h
> index 6e111fa..1766b61 100644
> --- a/src/domain_conf.h
> +++ b/src/domain_conf.h
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct _virDomainDiskDef {
>      int cachemode;
>      unsigned int readonly : 1;
>      unsigned int shared : 1;
> -    int slotnum; /* pci slot number for unattach */
> +    char *pci_addr; /* for detach */
>  };

I think it'd be nicer to store the parsed address here as a
nested struct with domain, bus, slot.

It is not really saving us trouble by using a string, since most
of the places using this field end up asprintf'ing it into another
string, or even having to extract pieces out of it again.

Daniel
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