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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] qdev: add init order filter


From: Marcel Apfelbaum
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] qdev: add init order filter
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:11:08 +0200
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On 03/09/2017 01:13 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


On 09/03/2017 00:59, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Allow forcing a specific order of initialization on
devices created with -device.
Helpful e.g. for built-in devices such as IOMMUs which must
exist before all other devices.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
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Looks like we have a ton of problems because devices
are initialized in a random order, while we
really want e.g. iommu to be initialized
earlier than devices.

This will be helpful for other things, e.g.
real hardware often is initialized in a specific order,
creating built-in devices for the board often
has to happen in a specific order, etc.

In the specific case of PCI bus_master_as there is a simple workaround
by placing a dummy container (which lets us build the AddressSpace) and
then adding the alias region at machine_done time.

This is exactly how MemoryListener is supposed to work, so I would start
from there.


Hi Paolo,

This will certainly solve virtio-pci ordering issue, but I am not sure
it solves the vfio-pci problem. Here is a link to Alex's explanation:

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg432365.html

Thanks,
Marcel

Paolo





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