[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/3] virhostdev: introduce virHostdevResetAllPCIDevices

Daniel Henrique Barboza danielhb413 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 13:21:01 UTC 2019



On 7/31/19 9:53 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 7/23/19 7:35 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>> This code that executes virPCIDeviceReset in all virPCIDevicePtr
>> objects of a given virPCIDeviceListPtr list is replicated twice
>> in the code. Putting it in a helper function helps with
>> readability.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   src/util/virhostdev.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>   1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/util/virhostdev.c b/src/util/virhostdev.c
>> index a3647a6cf4..4dd24a8f65 100644
>> --- a/src/util/virhostdev.c
>> +++ b/src/util/virhostdev.c
>> @@ -613,6 +613,32 @@ 
>> virHostdevRestoreNetConfig(virDomainHostdevDefPtr hostdev,
>>       }
>>   }
>>   +static int
>> +virHostdevResetAllPCIDevices(virHostdevManagerPtr mgr,
>> +                             virPCIDeviceListPtr pcidevs)
>> +{
>> +    int ret = 0;
>> +    size_t i;
>> +
>> +    for (i = 0; i < virPCIDeviceListCount(pcidevs); i++) {
>> +        virPCIDevicePtr pci = virPCIDeviceListGet(pcidevs, i);
>> +
>> +        /* We can avoid looking up the actual device here, because 
>> performing
>> +         * a PCI reset on a device doesn't require any information 
>> other than
>> +         * the address, which 'pci' already contains */
>> +        VIR_DEBUG("Resetting PCI device %s", virPCIDeviceGetName(pci));
>> +        if (virPCIDeviceReset(pci, mgr->activePCIHostdevs,
>> +                              mgr->inactivePCIHostdevs) < 0) {
>> +            VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to reset PCI device: %s"),
>> +                      virGetLastErrorMessage());
>> +            virResetLastError();
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. VIR_ERROR() logs the error message, 
> but then virResetLastError() clears the thread local error object and 
> thus if a PCI fails to reset the caller is left with 'uknown error' 
> and sysadmin has to go to logs to find out what's happening. In fact, 
> I think all those virResetLastError() calls should be removed from 
> virHostdevReAttachPCIDevices(). I'll fix it here and in 3/3 too.


Thanks for explaining and fixing it. I blindly moved the code to this new
function (here and in 3/3) without giving too much thought about whether
the existing error handling makes sense.



DHB


>
>> +            ret = -1;
>> +        }
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    return ret;
>> +}
>> +
>
> Michal




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