Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V3 2/2] Xen/PCIback: Implement PCI flr/slot/bus reset with 'reset' SysFS attribute

From: Roger Pau MonnÃ
Date: Wed Sep 19 2018 - 05:07:54 EST


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 02:09:53PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 9/18/18 5:32 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >> On Sep 18, 2018, at 8:15 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 02:06:02PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>> What about the toolstack changes? Have they been accepted? I vaguely
> >>> recall there was a discussion about those changes but don't remember how
> >>> it ended.
> >>>
> >> I don't think toolstack/libxl patch has been applied yet either.
> >>
> >>
> >> "[PATCH V1 0/1] Xen/Tools: PCI reset using 'reset' SysFS attribute":
> >> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg00664.html
> >>
> >> "[PATCH V1 1/1] Xen/libxl: Perform PCI reset using 'reset' SysFS attribute":
> >> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg00663.html
>
>
> Will this patch work for *BSD? Roger?

At least FreeBSD don't support pci-passthrough, so none of this works
ATM. There's no sysfs on BSD, so much of what's in libxl_pci.c will
have to be moved to libxl_linux.c when BSD support is added.

Thanks, Roger.