Re: [PATCH 04/16] virtio-pci: move freeze/restore to virtio core

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:07:02 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> This is in preparation to extending config changed event handling
> in core.
> Wrapping these in an API also seems to make for a cleaner code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/virtio.h      |  6 +++++
>  drivers/virtio/virtio.c     | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c | 55 ++-------------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
> index 3c19bd3..8df7ba8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ bool virtqueue_is_broken(struct virtqueue *vq);
>  /**
>   * virtio_device - representation of a device using virtio
>   * @index: unique position on the virtio bus
> + * @failed: saved value for CONFIG_S_FAILED bit (for restore)
>   * @dev: underlying device.
>   * @id: the device type identification (used to match it with a driver).
>   * @config: the configuration ops for this device.

The only minor gripe I have is with the naming of this field: To a
cursory reader, it might indicate the current 'failed' status of the
device. What about 'saved_failed'?

Otherwise, moving this into common virtio code makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>