On 06/23/2010 04:59 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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>> Why doesn't a device reset result in msi being cleared?
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> This is not a standard function reset. This is virtio specific
> command. So it only clears virtio registers.
>    

I see.  We should implement FLR in qemu.  If we don't already do so, we 
should probably FLR anything that moves when a kexec kernel starts.

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>> Shouldn't a reset be equivalent to power cycling?
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> If we did this, driver would need to restore registers
> such as BAR etc.
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We could save/restore the registers we care about.

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