[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: be sure we're using the updated value of backend during hotplug
Ján Tomko
jtomko at redhat.com
Tue Feb 4 11:36:30 UTC 2014
On 02/04/2014 12:24 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> Probable fix for
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056360
>
> commit f094aaac changed qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices() such that it
> may modify the "backend" (vfio vs. legacy kvm) setting in the
> virHostdevDef. However, qemuDomainAttachHostPciDevice() (used by
> hotplug) copies the backend setting into a local *before* calling
> qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices(), and then later makes a decision based
> on that pre-change value.
>
> The result is that, if the backend had been set to "default" (i.e. not
> specified in the config) and was later updated to "VFIO" by
> qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices(), the qemu process' MacMemLock is not
> increased (as is required for VFIO device assignment).
>
> This patch delays making the local copy of backend until after its
> potential modification.
> ---
> src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
ACK
Jan
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