Il 09/10/2014 06:14, Nicholas A. Bellinger ha scritto: > AFAICT from qemu code, the ioctl VHOST_SCSI_CLEAR_ENDPOINT is always > called during shutdown in order to release the endpoint and drop this > new configfs dependency. As far as I can see, the only path leading to the ioctl is vhost_scsi_set_status->vhost_scsi_stop. That only happens if the guest driver resets the device upon shutdown, or via vhost_scsi_unrealize as you pointed out. But unrealize() is only called when a device is hot-unplugged. It does not happen if you close QEMU with SIGTERM, ctrl-c, or with the "quit" command, because no attempt is done to bring down the VM data structures (or free memory, or close file descriptors) in case of a fatal exit. The kernel should do that for us. Besides that... > The question is, what happens when qemu crashes..? Is there currently > an assurance that VHOST_SCSI_CLEAR_ENDPOINT is called via the normal > VirtioDeviceClass->unrealize() when qemu exits abnormally..? ... of course nothing is called if you SIGKILL QEMU. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html