Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] hw/pci: handle unassigned pci addresses

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2013-09-09 20:59, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 September 2013 19:49, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Well, even if you resolve the locking issues in all the interesting
>> devices (not impossible, just pretty costly in several regards), you
>> cannot reasonably allow device A talking to device B triggering a
>> request on A issuing a command to B... in the general case. If such
>> recursions are programmable, we need to stop them before QEMU's stack
>> explodes.
> 
> Typically on real hardware configuring things this way causes
> either (a) a memory transaction abort or (b) a deadlock. I
> think we could reasonably model that by deadlocking our
> device model, though as you say we should avoid actually
> crashing :-)

If the deadlock makes the QEMU process unresponsive for management
software that tries to reset the machine, or emulated hardware watchdogs...

Jan

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