On 3/14/19 9:17 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com>
>
> Currently on driver resume we remove all the network queues and
> destroy shared Tx/Rx rings leaving the driver in its current state
> and never signaling the backend of this frontend's state change.
> This leads to the number of consequences:
> - when frontend withdraws granted references to the rings etc. it cannot
> be cleanly done as the backend still holds those (it was not told to
> free the resources)
> - it is not possible to resume driver operation as all the communication
> means with the backned were destroyed by the frontend, thus
> making the frontend appear to the guest OS as functional, but
> not really.
What do you mean? Are you saying that after resume you lose connectivity?
-boris
>
> Fix this by not destroying communication channels/rings on driver
> resume.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 17 -----------------
> 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> index c914c24f880b..2ca162048da4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> @@ -1422,22 +1422,6 @@ static void xennet_disconnect_backend(struct
> netfront_info *info)
> }
> }
>
> -/**
> - * We are reconnecting to the backend, due to a suspend/resume, or a backend
> - * driver restart. We tear down our netif structure and recreate it, but
> - * leave the device-layer structures intact so that this is transparent to
> the
> - * rest of the kernel.
> - */
> -static int netfront_resume(struct xenbus_device *dev)
> -{
> - struct netfront_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(&dev->dev);
> -
> - dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);
> -
> - xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> static int xen_net_read_mac(struct xenbus_device *dev, u8 mac[])
> {
> char *s, *e, *macstr;
> @@ -2185,7 +2169,6 @@ static struct xenbus_driver netfront_driver = {
> .ids = netfront_ids,
> .probe = netfront_probe,
> .remove = xennet_remove,
> - .resume = netfront_resume,
> .otherend_changed = netback_changed,
> };
>
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