Re: [PATCH v4 for 7.2 00/22] virtio-gpio and various virtio cleanups

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 10:18, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
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> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> writes:
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> > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 07:51:40AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
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> >> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > This is an update to the previous series which fixes the last few
> >> > niggling CI failures I was seeing.
> >> >
> >> >    Subject: [PATCH v3 for 7.2 00/21] virtio-gpio and various virtio 
> >> > cleanups
> >> >    Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:21:29 +0100
> >> >    Message-Id: <20220726192150.2435175-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> >> >
> >> > The CI failures were tricky to track down because they didn't occur
> >> > locally but after patching to dump backtraces they all seem to involve
> >> > updates to virtio_set_status() as the machine was torn down. I think
> >> > patch that switches all users to use virtio_device_started() along
> >> > with consistent checking of vhost_dev->started stops this from
> >> > happening. The clean-up seems worthwhile in reducing boilerplate
> >> > anyway.
> >> >
> >> > The following patches still need review:
> >> >
> >> >   - tests/qtest: enable tests for virtio-gpio
> >> >   - tests/qtest: add a get_features op to vhost-user-test
> >> >   - tests/qtest: implement stub for VHOST_USER_GET_CONFIG
> >> >   - tests/qtest: add assert to catch bad features
> >> >   - tests/qtest: plain g_assert for VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES
> >> >   - tests/qtest: catch unhandled vhost-user messages
> >> >   - tests/qtest: use qos_printf instead of g_test_message
> >> >   - tests/qtest: pass stdout/stderr down to subtests
> >> >   - hw/virtio: move vhd->started check into helper and add FIXME
> >> >   - hw/virtio: move vm_running check to virtio_device_started
> >> >   - hw/virtio: add some vhost-user trace events
> >> >   - hw/virtio: log potentially buggy guest drivers
> >> >   - hw/virtio: fix some coding style issues
> >> >   - include/hw: document vhost_dev feature life-cycle
> >> >   - include/hw/virtio: more comment for VIRTIO_F_BAD_FEATURE
> >> >   - hw/virtio: fix vhost_user_read tracepoint
> >> >   - hw/virtio: handle un-configured shutdown in virtio-pci
> >> >   - hw/virtio: gracefully handle unset vhost_dev vdev
> >> >   - hw/virtio: incorporate backend features in features
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> Ping?
> >
> > Who are you pinging?
> >
> > Only qemu-devel is on To and there are a bunch of people on Cc.
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> Well I guess MST is the maintainer for the sub-system but I was hoping
> other virtio contributors had some sort of view. The process of
> up-streaming a simple vhost-user stub has flushed out all sorts of
> stuff.

Okay, moving MST to To in case it helps get his attention.

Thanks,
Stefan