Some transports (e.g. virtio-ccw) implement virtio operations that seem to be a simple read/write as something more involved that cannot be done from an atomic context. Give at least a hint about that. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/virtio_config.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/linux/virtio_config.h index 7087ef946ba7..987b6491b946 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio_config.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio_config.h @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ struct irq_affinity; /** * virtio_config_ops - operations for configuring a virtio device + * Note: Do not assume that a transport implements all of the operations + * getting/setting a value as a simple read/write! Generally speaking, + * any of @get/@set, @get_status/@set_status, or @get_features/ + * @finalize_features are NOT safe to be called from an atomic + * context. * @get: read the value of a configuration field * vdev: the virtio_device * offset: the offset of the configuration field -- 2.17.2 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
