[RFC PATCH v2 1/5] virtio: introduce virtio_force_modern()

[Halil Pasic]

Legacy vs modern should be detected via transport specific means. We
can't wait till feature negotiation is done. Let us introduce
virtio_force_modern() as a means for the transport code to signal
that the device should operate in modern mode (because a modern driver
was detected).

A new callback is added for the situations where the device needs
to do more than just setting the VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 feature bit. For
example, when vhost is involved, we may need to propagate the features
to the vhost device.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
---

I'm still struggling with how to deal with vhost-user and co. The
problem is that I'm not very familiar with the life-cycle of, let us
say, a vhost_user device.

Looks to me like the vhost part might be just an implementation detail,
and could even become a hot swappable thing.

Another thing is, that vhost processes set_features differently. It
might or might not be a good idea to change this.

Does anybody know why don't we propagate the features on features_set,
but under a set of different conditions, one of which is the vhost
device is started?
---
 hw/virtio/virtio.c         | 13 +++++++++++++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 3a1f6c520c..26db1b31e6 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -3281,6 +3281,19 @@ void virtio_init(VirtIODevice *vdev, const char *name,
     vdev->use_guest_notifier_mask = true;
 }
 
+void  virtio_force_modern(VirtIODevice *vdev)
+{
+    VirtioDeviceClass *k = VIRTIO_DEVICE_GET_CLASS(vdev);
+
+    virtio_add_feature(&vdev->guest_features, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1);
+    /* Let the device do it's normal thing. */
+    virtio_set_features(vdev, vdev->guest_features);
+    /* For example for vhost-user we have to propagate to the vhost dev. */
+    if (k->force_modern) {
+        k->force_modern(vdev);
+    }
+}
+
 /*
  * Only devices that have already been around prior to defining the virtio
  * standard support legacy mode; this includes devices not specified in the
diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index 8bab9cfb75..1bb1551865 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ struct VirtioDeviceClass {
     int (*validate_features)(VirtIODevice *vdev);
     void (*get_config)(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t *config);
     void (*set_config)(VirtIODevice *vdev, const uint8_t *config);
+    void (*force_modern)(VirtIODevice *vdev);
     void (*reset)(VirtIODevice *vdev);
     void (*set_status)(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t val);
     /* For transitional devices, this is a bitmap of features
@@ -394,6 +395,7 @@ static inline bool virtio_device_disabled(VirtIODevice 
*vdev)
     return unlikely(vdev->disabled || vdev->broken);
 }
 
+void  virtio_force_modern(VirtIODevice *vdev);
 bool virtio_legacy_allowed(VirtIODevice *vdev);
 bool virtio_legacy_check_disabled(VirtIODevice *vdev);
 
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