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authorCornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>2019-01-31 13:53:14 +0100
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2019-03-06 11:19:57 -0500
commitab7a2375fb8e83f8744c34442f476fa5a9df5e35 (patch)
tree58698720fc0a7a79f4fdefaae195aabf57a83dba /drivers/vhost
parent971bedca26e037ee961e090c84c2640563836d3e (diff)
virtio: hint if callbacks surprisingly might sleep
A virtio transport is free to implement some of the callbacks in virtio_config_ops in a matter that they cannot be called from atomic context (e.g. virtio-ccw, which maps a lot of the callbacks to channel I/O, which is an inherently asynchronous mechanism). This can be very surprising for developers using the much more common virtio-pci transport, just to find out that things break when used on s390. The documentation for virtio_config_ops now contains a comment explaining this, but it makes sense to add a might_sleep() annotation to various wrapper functions in the virtio core to avoid surprises later. Note that annotations are NOT added to two classes of calls: - direct calls from device drivers (all current callers should be fine, however) - calls which clearly won't be made from atomic context (such as those ultimately coming in via the driver core) Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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